On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 11:31, James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2020-05-27 11:29 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
So now I'm really interested in how these names are made available. I don't care which of the two names it provides, but I'd really, really like it to do it consistently. Can someone point me in the right direction, and I'll go do my homework. Thanks.
Probablly mDNS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS
Thanks, that's a perfect point of entry. It sent me to Avahi, a name I've been aware of for years but never previously investigated. And from there I discovered that 'systemctl status avahi.daemon' on the Pi shows that the service died about a day and a half ago. So I have my work cut out for me trying to figure out why it died. Is a restart sufficient, or will it happen again? Etc. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com