Now TrendingBy Juliet Kempavahi is installed by default on Debian and Ubuntu systems, but few people seem to use it to any extent. It’s supposed to be a service auto-discovery, but what services exactly is it set up to discover? I decided to take a look and figure out if I could actually make it do something I wanted.avahi runs mDNS plus DNS-SD: that is, multicast DNS plus DNS service discovery. Multicast DNS means that each equipped host stores its own DNS records. A multicast address (224.0.0.251) is used by clients wishing to get the IP address of a given hostname, and that host responds...…Now TrendingBy Juliet Kempavahi is installed by default on Debian and Ubuntu systems, but few people seem to use it to any extent. It’s supposed to be a service auto-discovery, but what services exactly is it set up to discover? I decided to take a look and figure out if I could actually make it do something I wanted.avahi runs mDNS plus DNS-SD: that is, multicast DNS plus DNS service discovery. Multicast DNS means that each equipped host stores its own DNS records. A multicast address (224.0.0.251) is used by clients wishing to get the IP address of a given hostname, and that host responds...WW…