Questions tagged [bonjour]
Bonjour is Apple's implementation of zero-configuration networking, a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution.
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Why do some WiFi routers block multicast packets going from wired to wireless?
I have worked with dozens of consumer grade WiFi routers, and they have been really hit-or-miss with this, though it seems to be getting better.
Example of issue:
A device that can be discovered ...
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How to enable mDNS on Windows 10 build 17134?
I am looking for a way to resolve .local addresses in Windows 10.
Windows itself also includes mDNS support, but that appears to only be available for Modern API applications.
In the past, the ...
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How to get shared computers' IP addresses in OS X 10.7?
I have list of computers on my "Shared" sidebar, however I don't have their IP addresses.
My router has their IP addresses, however there is no computer-name <> IP address mapping.
How do I find ...
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10 second delay for .local TLD in Mac OS X Lion
Our company network uses xxx.companyname.local for all the servers on our local network. Whenever I access one of these servers on my Mac, I have a 10 second delay. I have found out that this delay is ...
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avahi-browse or avahi-discover for Windows [closed]
Is there a Windows free (= libre) software analoguous to GNU/Linux avahi-browse or avahi-discover (which would discover avahi/bonjour services on the local network and list them)?
Since I have ...
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How do you hide a computer name on a network? (OS X 10.6)
I regularly plug my Macbook Pro into a network at work, but because of the way Mac networking works, my computer's name instantly becomes available to any other Mac on the network. Is there a way to ...
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Is there a way to share a scanner with an Airport Extreme?
I've got an Airport Extreme as my home network's router. (Sidebar: I love it.)
The printer sharing is pretty phenomenal - I've got my printer hooked up to the base station and all the machines in ...
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Back to My Mac registers services using loopback interface IPv6 address
I'd like to be able to use Back to My Mac over the IPv6 internet. I've already got IPv6 access (i.e. My Airport is assigned a /64 block from my ISP and sends out RAs so everyone on the network can ...
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Wireless router that supports Bonjour between wire- and wireless- connected machines
At home I have an ADSL modem that I use also as router. For the record, it is a DavoLink DV-2020 provided by Tele2 in the Netherlands. It turns out that if a computer is connected with a cable to the ...
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Is it possible to install Bonjour Service without the Print Services on Windows?
Apple provides this link to download and install Bonjour.
After installation, it includes 2 products - the Bonjour Service itself and Bonjour Print Services.
Is is possible to install only the ...
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How to get IP address of all users on a network on Mac OS X
There is a similar question here, but it doesn’t answer some of my questions.
The biggest problem is it says to fill in “MyOtherMac” with the name of the other computer found in the first step. The ...
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Zeroconf SSH advertising : utility?
On my Airport Express I can set up SSH advertising for computers on my network.
I have the same option with avahi on a linux server.
What is the utility of doing this ?
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How to continually run mDNS on Windows 10?
I'm facing issues enabling mDNS in Windows 10.
I've implemented the solution provided in this question and it works, but after running PC 24 hrs it vanishes and Bonjour Services can't find any mDNS ...
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How do I get "Back to My Mac" (using MobileMe) from Windows?
I have a MobileMe subscription and a Mac at home with "Back to My Mac" enabled. When I'm away from home, this service lets me use another Mac to connect to my Mac back home and access file sharing, ...
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Broadcast mDNS for another device
I have a custom/experimental device (D) on my home LAN with a static IP running an HTTP server. For reasons that are not important to this question, (D) cannot run mDNS. I have another full-fledged ...
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Repeating mDNS/Bonjour requests from eth0 through a tunnel (tun0)
To start off, I am quite new at both networking and Unix/Ubuntu/Linux distros. Just a warning, for any setup/code may look a bit ugly.
Basically, my end goal is to successfully AirPlay Mirror to a ...
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Do I need Apple Bonjour on XP?
Somehow (not sure how) I always manage to install Apple Bonjour on my XP machines. Do I need this piece of software for any reason? Is it required for some iPod/iPhone service (which we do use)?
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MacBook Pro with Time Capsule can not see Samsung CLX 3175FW wireless printer on Bonjour
I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6 and another MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5. Neither see my Samsung printer when I click on Bonjour. Needless to say neither will print. I have a Time Capsule ...
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Mac .local domain-name stopped resolving
My laptop had the hostname Michaels-MacBook-Pro.local, and I could ping it with ping Michaels-MacBook-Pro.local.
Today, it just stopped. I can access co-workers' laptops with ping Name-MacBook-Pro....
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How can I get Bonjour to work over my wireless network?
I have a wireless network setup using a AP541N Cisco wireless access point. I can connect to shares from Finder with cmd+K over AFP and SMB to the NAS and I can get to the internet, but thats it. None ...
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How to make .local resolve not via mDNS on Mac OS Mohave?
My ISP provides useful service on .local domain which is absolutely necessary.
But I can't ping it from my Mac PC. I found out that the "problem" connected to Bonjour service and all .local domains ...
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How to check if a router support Bonjour protocol?
I am trying to print something from iPad using printer connected with WLAN. However, iPad unable to discover printer and after searching on internet, I found that iPad and other iOS devices uses ...
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Retrieving Bonjour (Zeroconf/mDNS) name from IP address
It seems that this is the best way to get the Bonjour name from an IP address:
$ dig -x 192.168.214.108 @224.0.0.251 -p 5353
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> -x 192.168.214.108 @224....
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Set up Linux box as WAP for MyBookLive?
I inherited an old Linux box as well as a MyBookLive and would like to make the MyBookLive available over my wireless, essentially using the Linux box as a gateway.
I just wiped the Linux box (home) ...
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AirPort Express Discoverability
I bought an AirPort Express to enable music in a different part of a friend's house using the AirTunes feature. Unfortunately, iTunes or the AirPort Utility don't reliably discover the existence of ...
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TP-Link DoS protection blocks Bonjour
We have an Apple-centric office and as such we rely on Bonjour (mDNS) for auto-discovery of things like printers, AirPlay targets, and pseudo-servers (e.g. exchanging files between desktop computers).
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Avahi quits working after a few minutes on FreeBSD/FreeNAS
As I mentioned in another post, I've set up a portsjail on FreeNAS 9.1.1 (FreeBSD 9.x) with CUPS and avahi. I'm trying to set up AirPrint support. I've gotten to the point that a Mac can see the avahi ...
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Host name record is removed when announcing with avahi
I am trying to announce a ssh service from my raspberry pi running raspian a Debian squeeze variant. It is using avahi-daemon version 0.6.31. However after a certain time, I cannot find my raspberry ...
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Bonjour does not work with TP-Link Archer C2
I recently bought a TP-Link Archer C2 router, and I am very satisfied with it so far. I have only a single problem: Bonjour service advertising seems to be broken.
My network:
Simultaneous 2.4 and 5 ...
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Enable file sharing only when on home Wi-Fi network in OS X?
How can file/screen/other sharing on Mac OS X be enabled only when on a certain network, such as the home Wi-Fi network? Sharing should not be enabled when on public Wi-Fi network.
Currently it seems ...
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Cannot resolve Bonjour local hostname when on wifi extender
I have a somewhat twisted network setup, mainly because I have to share the wifi signal coming from the next door (long story). Recently, I wanted to add NAS and other things that required Ethernet ...
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mDNS / Bonjour thourgh WLAN and VLAN
I have here the following situation:
Zyxel USG20 -> VLAN -> Server (192.168.50.xx) (local_1)
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Which free VNC server works well with Windows 7 and how to advertise it via Bonjour for control by a Mac?
I need to control a Windows 7 PC via VNC from a Mac in an office LAN. Since the IPs are dynamically assigned, I'd like the PC to appear in my "Places" and in the automatically detected nearby servers ...
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How to figure out exactly URI of my network printer(Canon MX358)?
I have successfully setup my printer(Canon PIXMA MX358) as a network printer, and connected/configured it correctly in Kubuntu 20.04, if my computer lived in the same LAN (same broadcast-domain) of ...
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Advertise multiple 'Bonjour' hostnames for the local computer on Snow Leopard
I am developing an in-house solution for which I need to register a couple of additional bonjour hostnames for the local machine besides the one assigned through the 'sharing' System Preferences pane. ...
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What is the difference between hostname suffixes .local and .lan?
Why do other computers on my home network sometimes resolve as xyz.local and other times as xyz.lan ?
I have a NAS device that shows up in Safari Bonjour bookmarks as xyz.local. I've copied a direct ...
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Cannot Find Bonjour Connected Computers
I have three Mac Notebooks on a local network all connected to the same router. Two of the notebooks use Airport (not the base station), and the third one is wired to the ethernet.
Airport notebooks ...
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AirPrint does not work with Netgear router, HP LaserJet and macOS
I have a Netgear WNDR3700v5 router to which I have connected a MacBook Pro running macOS 10.12.6 and a HP LaserJet MFP 130FW printer.
The printer is set up to connect via AirPrint / Bonjour. Usually, ...
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mDNS/ZeroConf/Avahi and Multiple IP Addresses for the Same Host
I'm setting up a media server at home with an old PowerMac that I found rotting in some cellar (great computer by the way, I don't understand why they wanted to throw it away) and I installed Debian ...
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VPN and Bonjour conflicting
Does anyone know why a VPN connection might interfere with Apple's Bonjour? I've noticed that my Mac and various iDevices have trouble finding each other on my local network, when I have VPN ...
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Sharing Mac Printer with Ubuntu (Linux)
I want to share my printer connected to my Mac with a Ubuntu Box (10.04 LTS -Lucid Lynx).
I click share printer on the Mac, and then I do a discover on the Ubuntu box ... I see the printer, I select ...
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How do you get OS X 10.5+ to resolve all .local DNS lookups using mDNS?
OS X 10.5+ has some slightly odd resolver configuration to work around broken networks. It's described here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3473
The problem I'm having is that our network doesn't ...
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Why do DNS service discovery queries for private networks get sent to my ISP?
I was doing some testing lately that involved re-ruoting (proxying) regular DNS queries on a personal Mac OS X machine through my software and back to the DNS server of my ISP.
I had the opportunity ...
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Alternatives to lanmessage
I'm using lanmessage on OSX to send messages on a local network.
http://www.beckmanjm.com/freeware.html
I don't want to have to use a public service as such. LanMessage works, but it's not ...
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Bonjour for Windows vs. SMB for printer sharing
My landlord would like to print to her printer connected to her Mac from Windows machines in her house. (I'm unsure of what versions of windows, but I assume Vista or 7.)
Looking at these docs ...
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If I uninstall Bonjour and Apple Mobile Device Support will transferring songs to my ipod via itunes still work?
I am one of those people who hate to have even one unnecessary program installed. I noticed when I downloaded and installed itunes two other components were installed and shows up in my control panel >...
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Can I disable the Bonjour Service?
I've got a Windows 8.1 machine. I don't own an iPhone. I do have some low-end iPod nanos, none of which have Bluetooth or anything else that I'm aware of which uses Wi-Fi. So, can I just disable the ...
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Bonjour/DNS Service Discovery queries
I'm trying to implement dns service discovery in my application (no, I'm not asking for a programmatic answer). What I believe is one of my big pain points is generating the query. I know I need to ...
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How do you get the "Bonjour Service Name" from a single device?
I have two types of device that I want to machine over Ethernet to a host. I want to know which of those two device types is connected.
Both devices use Avahi/Bonjour and have what they call a "...
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No bonjour discovery even in TAP\Ethernet-bridge mode OpenVPN
I have a remote printer/scanner on a network that is accessible to me via OpenVPN server tap running on Ubuntu host. IP printing is fine, its the scanner service i need using tools on my client ...
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