Use of ".local" addresses (Avahi/Bonjour/mDNS/Rendezvous/Zeroconf)

[MuWeg]

Hi,

I have some devices with web interface in my local network, that I can access with the browser, e.g. via "https://coffeemachine.local/waterlevel.html".

This works with both Linux and iOS without any configuration, it works also with Windows when installing "Apple Bonjour", but not with Android, neither using the builtin browser nor Firefox for Android.

Does somebody have an idea how to do this with Android (esp. Cyanogenmod)?

Thanks in advance!

 

[crowlogic]

Damn good question. Did you ever figure this out? On linux this is provided via the Name Server Switch nss-mdns module and I suspect a similiar way on crapple's operating system

Package: libnss-mdns
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 106
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: same
Source: nss-mdns
Version: 0.10-6
Replaces: lib32nss-mdns (<< 0.10-6)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), base-files (>= 3.1.10), avahi-daemon (>= 0.6.16-1)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Suggests: avahi-autoipd | zeroconf
Breaks: lib32nss-mdns (<< 0.10-6)
Description: NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution
nss-mdns is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution via Multicast
DNS (using Zeroconf, aka Apple Bonjour / Apple Rendezvous ), effectively
allowing name resolution by common Unix/Linux programs in the ad-hoc mDNS
domain .local.

 

[crowlogic]

btw android uses this shitty ass proprietary "bionic" c library, not GNU C so thats why nss isnt there