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Re: Stretch and WiFi ALMOST working

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On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 19:54:34 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:

> However, I now discover that Avahi is not doing its thing properly any 
> more, and other machines on my network cannot see this machine by name. 
> Its IP address right now is 192.168.11.13 and its name is affinity. I 
> have another machine on my network, a jessie box, which is called kazuki 
> and happens to be at IP 192.168.11.4 right now. From kazuki I can ping 
> affinity by IP address, and likewise from affinity I can ping kazuki by 
> IP address, but ping kazuki.local from affinity and ping affinity.local 
> from kazuki both fail with "ping: unknown host X" where X is the machine 
> I am trying to ping, after a pause that suggests some sort of attempt to 
> find the other machine is being made.

You do have libnss-mdns installed and the line

  hosts:	files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

in /etc/nsswitch?

-- 
Brian.

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Stretch and WiFi ALMOST working Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 12:00 +0100
  Re: Stretch and WiFi ALMOST working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-29 17:50 +0100
    Re: Stretch and WiFi ALMOST working Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-12-31 04:10 +0100

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