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An implementation of the  DNS Service Discovery and  Multicast DNS specifications for  Zeroconf Networking. It uses  D-Bus for communication between user applications and a system daemon. The daemon is used to coordinate application efforts in caching replies, necessary to minimize the traffic imposed on networks.
An implementation of the  DNS Service Discovery and  Multicast DNS specifications for  Zeroconf Networking. It uses  D-Bus for communication between user applications and a system daemon. The daemon is used to coordinate application efforts in caching replies, necessary to minimize the traffic imposed on networks.
Avahi allows you to access computers using their hostnames. ([https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/avahi documentation from archwiki]) The services on the network can be hosted and discovered [http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/sprotect/v2r8m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.alps.doc%2Fconcepts%2Falps_ig_using_avahi.htm through the command line].
'''Note: you must install nss-mdns for this to work, and have avahi-daemon.service enabled and running.'''
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