[avahi] Avahi and Apache VirtualHosts

[Xavier Cambar]

Hi,
I've recently been discovering the power of Avahi in a virtualized  
ubuntu JeOS environment, to have it communicate with its Leopard 'host'.
I don't want to modify the name resolution services on my Mac, as the  
purpose of using a virtualized server is to avoid config changes into  
Leopard.

Unfortunately, this constraint brings its own problem: As I set name- 
based Virtual hosts into Apache (in JeOS), I did not succeed to set  
multiple hostnames within Avahi for my virtualized station.

In other words: The JeOS station is called "JeOS". JeOS has many  
Virtual Hosts, say JeOS, JeOS1, JeOS2, and so on.
But Avahi publishes (by default) only the JeOS hostname, for mDNS name  
resolution.
I'd like Avahi to publish multiple hostnames so my Leopard workstation  
could resolve JeOS1, JeOS2, and the others.

Is that feasible?


Note that I've read the recent posts about that very same subject, but  
didn't notice any convenient answer, as I can't use the static hosts  
file (my virtualized JeOS is DHCP-based, in order to be able to move  
from a LAN to another).

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Xavier C.