[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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