[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get multicast/zeroconfig dns to work on port 5353

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Wed Apr 3 11:13:26 BST 2013


On 01/04/13 18:05, Andreas Bäck wrote:
> I have a openwrt dnsmasq box where I try to get avahi-browse -a from my
> ubuntu desktop  a to find the printers I have installed on it but
> dnsmasq it's not  listening on port 5353 what I have understood is
> required. My looking in the code I didn't find any multicast code. Is
> this function missing or have I understood this wrong.
>
> Here some info what I try to do
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/p910nd.server
>
> Thank you in advance
>
>

There's no support for multicast DNS in dnsmasq, but the instructions 
you link to imply to me that unicast DNS is sufficient.

I'm no expert on mDNS, does avahi-browse do muticast-only?


Cheers,

Simon.




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