[Cialug] DNS and playing well with OSX

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Don Ellis <don.ellis at gmail.com> wrote:

> New hypothesis: perhaps the Macintosh names are being provided via
> Bonjour, and the other system names are not?
> 
> Zach, does this sound reasonable?


By default OS X (and I believe iOS, though I haven't checked) publishes a hostname and service records via mDNS, and does mDNS lookups on the local broadcast domain as part of regular gethostname()-type operations. So "YouMachineName" or "YourMachineName.local" will "just work" among Apple products.

If you've only got a handful of machines, and particularly if some of them run Apple OSes, mDNS isn't a bad plan. But you do have to add an mDNS responder (avahi or the like) to non-Apple systems.

	Zach

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