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Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:57 am
by michael9000
Using F96-CE, kernel 6.1.9.
Is it possible to SSH into another linux system using user@hostname.local instead of user@192.168.x.x?
For example: ssh derek@dereksPC.local
I'm also trying to automount a samba share using an entry in fstab but this will not work using user@hostname.local. It does work with user@192.168.x.x.
On other linux distros this has been handled by the avahi daemon. I installed avahi using ppm but after reboot the avahi daemon seems to be not running. I can't find it using htop anyway. I tried starting it with systemctl but that wasn't recognised.
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:04 am
by Sofiya
michael9000 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:57 am
Using F96-CE, kernel 6.1.9.
Is it possible to SSH into another linux system using user@hostname.local instead of user@192.168.x.x?
For example: ssh derek@dereksPC.local
I'm also trying to automount a samba share using an entry in fstab but this will not work using user@hostname.local. It does work with user@192.168.x.x.
On other linux distros this has been handled by the avahi daemon. I installed avahi using ppm but after reboot the avahi daemon seems to be not running. I can't find it using htop anyway. I tried starting it with systemctl but that wasn't recognised.
Using Avahi - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 4:00 am
by michael9000
Thanks for your reply.
I looked at the Arch page you linked.
It says install nss-mdns package . I could not find this package in either package manager. Only libnss-mdns_0.14.1.
Maybe I could install nss-mdns from another source but I don't know how to do this.
--Edit--
Installed libnss-mdns_0.14.1.
Arch wiki says next step is run:
stystemctl start avahi-daemon-service
Tried this. Returns:
command not found
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 5:52 am
by Sofiya
michael9000 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:57 am
Using F96-CE, kernel 6.1.9.
I tried starting it with systemctl but that wasn't recognised.
try running it like this : /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:26 am
by michael9000
I tried:
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
and got message:
Could not receive return value from daemon process.
The arch wiki page mentions file /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'm unclear what, if anything, I should write into this file.
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:24 am
by Sofiya
michael9000 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 9:26 am
I tried:
The arch wiki page mentions file /etc/nsswitch.conf. I'm unclear what, if anything, I should write into this file.
nsswitch.conf
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hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 mdns
networks: files dns
passwd: files
group: files
bootparams: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
services: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
sudoers: files
Re: Using hostname.local instead of IP address.
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2023 8:37 pm
by michael9000
I copied the correct entry into nsswitch.conf, rebooted just incase, and ran '/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start' but got the same response - 'Could not receive return value from daemon process'
The avahi package I installed at the start is 'avahi-daemon-0.7-4ubuntu7_amd64'. Is that the correct package?
--update--
I went back to a vanilla F96-CE and followed the same steps but no luck.