.local query about avahi HOT 2 CLOSED

Hello,

I have a problem with Avahi or something related on Fedora 24 because I can't connect to an other Fedora 24 PC by doing this "ssh hostname.local". It work if I do "ssh OtherPCip". I have an android phone with primitive ftpd that allow a ssh connection and I can connect to my phone with "ssh android.local".

It seem that avahi don't show the hostname.local to others computers on Fedora. I also tried to disable the firewall (without rebooting) but it's the same.

I managed to make the connection work from desktop to laptop but that only last for a few minutes.

How can I make it work ? Is there a bug ?

Thanks !

Reported on Fedora too

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1354080

from avahi.

@Frontstriker15 libnss-mdns intentionally black-holes all .local queries. this is as per specification, however this was fixed in nss-mdns here to try handle that better avahi/nss-mdns#18

@Paviluf First two steps to diagnosis would be
(1) I would check that libnss-mdns is installed, and then publish the 'hosts' line from /etc/nsswitch.conf
(2) Try avahi-resolve-host-name hostname.local to see if that works, that will determine if avahi is the issue or the NSS hostname resolution is.
(3) Include the journal for avahi-daemon

Generally it's not likely a bug in avahi or nss-mdns itself and something you need support from Fedora to fix on your system

Closing this out as the first issue is from nss-mdns and already fixed, the second is a support request and not a bug at this time.

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