Avahi Alternatives

avahi reviews and mentions

• What's the easiest way to set up local DNS names?
  1 project | /r/selfhosted | 30 Apr 2023
• How to claim MDNS address on windows?
  2 projects | /r/techsupport | 12 Apr 2023

  I don't know any that run on Windows. There's Avahi for Linux and BSD (and WSL probably), it allows manual configuration of many aspects of mDNS/DNS-SD. It won't allow multiple host names though, and it binds to interfaces, not IP addresses (or anything else you can easily create multiple instances of on Windows).

• Has anyone found an MFP Color Laser that *RELIABLY* works with AirPrint/IPP?
  3 projects | /r/printers | 11 Feb 2023

  Apple literally invented CUPS, the most common Unix printing framework in use today. CUPS is the engine for iOS, MacOS, iPadOS, AirPrint, etc. I am really not interested in a debate about whether AirPrint and Apple are crappy systems or are the things to blame with my printer. I know for a fact they are not - because I am a developer and I know how mDNS works, and I know the specific problem my printer has. My Canon printer's operating system has an old, unpatched version of AVAHI that has a lot of problems playing nice with dns-sd and has a known issue with name collisions on it's own interfaces. It's no surprise it doesn't work well with AirPrint for anyone who's familiar with AVAHI.

• No AirPrint printers found when I am remote
  1 project | /r/WireGuard | 12 Jan 2023

  Depending on how you have Wireguard set up, the host the end point resides on probably isn't forwarding the multicast traffic down the Wireguard tunnel. So you might need to run something like Avahi on the Wireguard endpoint and have it set up on the Wireguard interface and the interface that can see the AirPrint printer.

• MDNS over WireGuard
  1 project | /r/opnsense | 29 Nov 2022

  mDNS is multicast, but you can technically grab the packets and force it down another network. The issue is that I've not seen this implemented on OPNSense before. Others have managed to pull this off: https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/g80bxf/cant_get_zeroconfavahimdns_reflection_to_work/ https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/262

• Emacs on an iPad
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Nov 2022

  Does the autodiscovery for NoMachine work on Wireguard VPNs as well?

  I use, and love, Wireguard, but I think out of the box Wireguard does not support multicast. And I expect that NoMachine also depends on multicast to do its autodisovery. Probably with mDNS and DNS-SD.

  Upon googling now, it does seem like some people have successfully been able to get multicast working over Wireguard. For example:

  > Hey! Just in case you (or anyone else browsing this) still needs this, i've got avahi working over my wireguard client-to-site connection. I can access my home LAN computers using hostname.local from any VPN-connected device.

  > I think the missing piece was adding 224.0.0.251/32 and ff02::fb/128 (multicast addresses) to allowed ips.

  from https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/g80bxf/cant_get_...

  Likewise, there seem to be some additional useful information relating to mDNS / Avahi on this issue on GitHub, for various situations:

  https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/262

  And here is someone who got DLNA (which also uses multicast) working through site-to-site Wireguard VPN:

  https://an0n-r0.medium.com/making-dlna-through-site-to-site-...

• Apple device names keep changing with numbers?
  1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 7 Apr 2022

  Unfortunate, I was hoping this was a simple issue. Looks like lots of complaints out there for apple devices having this same conflict with Avahi. Sadly, it appears there is not a clear fix at this time. Main issue thread can be found here with posts from 2017 to a couple months ago.

• Omada Device Setup Review & Advice
  1 project | /r/TPLink_Omada | 14 Mar 2022

  I think OP can run Avahi on the rPi along with the controller until the mDNS feature is released.

• Tradfri gateway creates 256 instances of HAP protocol entries
  1 project | /r/tradfri | 26 Nov 2021

  Turned off the HomeAssistance and Homebridge, but left the raspberry pi running. Still seeing the renames. This can be an Avahi issue, possibly this https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/117. Raspbian buster has Avahi 0.7, going to check if bullseye release has 0.8.

• Local Website on my QNAP
  1 project | /r/qnap | 11 Oct 2021

  There is another thing you can try, install avahi-daemon... link

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