X-Git-Url: http://git.meshlink.io/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Favahi-daemon.8.xml.in;h=b45e8c189e3491a100ac3a57bc167ce0a594c4a2;hb=c7ecad8fa467b8be2b34064020e2c541c480645e;hp=a7013405bfb74988d8a3c4e6b819b31587fbe9a0;hpb=a9e118b82c39b12695575229934af435058668a5;p=catta diff --git a/man/avahi-daemon.8.xml.in b/man/avahi-daemon.8.xml.in index a701340..b45e8c1 100644 --- a/man/avahi-daemon.8.xml.in +++ b/man/avahi-daemon.8.xml.in @@ -30,12 +30,10 @@ avahi-daemon --kill avahi-daemon --reload avahi-daemon --check - avahi-daemon --version - avahi-daemon --help -

The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implementing Apple's ZeroConf +

The Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon implements Apple's Zeroconf architecture (also known as "Rendezvous" or "Bonjour"). The daemon registers local IP addresses and static services using mDNS/DNS-SD and provides two IPC APIs for local programs to make @@ -44,13 +42,16 @@ exclusively by avahi-dnsconfd (a daemon which configures unicast DNS servers using server info published via mDNS) and nss-mdns (a libc NSS plugin, providing name resolution via mDNS). Finally - there is the DBUS interface which provides a rich object - oriented interface to DBUS enabled applications.

+ there is the D-Bus interface which provides a rich object + oriented interface to D-Bus enabled applications.

Upon startup avahi-daemon interprets its configuration file - @pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf and reads XML fragments from - @servicedir@/*.service which may define static DNS-SD - services.

+ @pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf and reads XML + fragments from @servicedir@/*.service which may + define static DNS-SD services. If you enable + publish-resolv-conf-dns-servers in + avahi-daemon.conf the file + /etc/resolv.conf will be read, too.

@@ -62,9 +63,42 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + -
-

@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon.

+

@pkgsysconfdir@/avahi-daemon.conf: the default configuration file for avahi-daemon, for more information.

-

@servicedir@/*.service: static service definitions.

+

@pkgsysconfdir@/hosts: additional static hostname mappings to publish in mDNS, see for more information.

+ +

@servicedir@/*.service: static service definitions, see for more information.

-

SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT: avahi-daemon will shutdown. This is issued by passing --kill to avahi-daemon.

-

SIGHUP: avahi-daemon will reload the static service definitions from @servicedir@/.

+

SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT: avahi-daemon will shutdown. (Same as --kill).

+

SIGHUP: avahi-daemon will reload unicast DNS + server data from /etc/resolv.conf and static + service definitions from @servicedir@/. (Same as --reload)

SIGUSR1: avahi-daemon will dump local and remote cached resource record data to syslog.

-

The avahi developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; avahi is +

The Avahi Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; Avahi is available from

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+ +

http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal documents the problems when using Avahi in a unicast DNS zone .local.