[avahi] publishing within differant subnets

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 05.06.08 22:21, Rupesh (thakkar_rupesh at yahoo.com) wrote:

> I wanted use avahi tool for
> publishing services . Bear me I am new to avahi.
> I have two subnets with in same
> physical network . For example: I am on a machine with 10.52.10.X(
> DHCP IP) with default gateway as 10.52.10.254
>  and domain as "smsv.com" and clients is on  machine
> static ip 10.52.11.x with the gateway 10.52.11.254
> and with domain "sadom.com" and I can' publish service with
> domin option, does specifying domain in following way will help me
> alone and how ?
> 
> avahi-publish --domain="sadom.com" -R "ServiceName" _http._tcp
> "sadom.com" 80 "XXXXXXX" I get below error
> 
> Failed to add service: Not supported

.local is the mDNS domain. All other domains are classic unicast DNS
domains. Unfortunately, Avahi doesn't (yet) support registering
services in unicast DNS servers.

In short: if you want to publish services you have to do so in .local.

Lennart

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