avahi and macOS hostname number bug
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Hey folks - I feel like this comes up with some frequency but for the life of me, I couldn't find a thread with a fix.
I run avahi to support mDNS between vLANs (for IoT stuff). It works, except all of my apple devices --which is to say virtually my entire network --experience the hostname(number) problem. Every device is host(5643) and then when they sleep and wake it increments.
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https://forum.netgate.com/topic/136880/avahi-endless-computer-name-loop
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you are a saint! (and now I see the fine print under that setting about helping with duplication)
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well...drat! That didn't turn out to work :/
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@spacebass said in avahi and macOS hostname number bug:
ou are a saint! (and now I see the fine print under that setting about helping with duplicati
Think you'll need to go into System Prefs -> Sharing and remove the (123) from the name.
I gave up using AVAHI and added the following to every interface I needed multicast:-