How to route all subdomains to a single host using mDNS?
- by John Mee
I have a development webserver hosting as "myhost.local" which is found using Bonjour/mDNS. The server is running avahi-daemon.
The webserver also wants to handle any subdomains of itself. Eg "cat.myhost.local" and "dog.myhost.local" and "guppy.myhost.local".
Given that myhost.local is on a dynamic ip address from dhcp, is there still a way to route all requests for the subdomains to myhost.local?
I'm starting to think it not currently possible...
http://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-avahi&m=119561596630960&w=2
You can do this with the /etc/avahi/hosts file. Alternatively you can
use avahi-publish-host-name.
No, he cannot. Since he wants to define an alias, not a new
hostname. I.e. he only wants to register an A RR, no reverse PTR RR. But
if you stick something into /etc/avahi/hosts then it registers both,
and detects a collision if the PTR RR is non-unique, which would be the
case for an alias.
