[avahi] Avahi and Apache VirtualHosts

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 23.02.08 10:55, Xavier Cambar (xcambar at gmail.com) wrote:

> 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?

Hmm? I am not sure why you might want to do this. You can safely
install multiple services via mod_dnssd that use different URLs on the
same host name.

If you want to define aliases for hostnames (i.e. CNAMES), than you
can easily write a program in python that registers those. 

I'd also be happy to accept a patch for avahi proper that adds a file
/etc/avahi/aliases akin to /etc/avahi/hosts but only for defining
CNAME aliases for the local host.

Lennart

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