avahi.hosts(5)

💖 avahi.hosts — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, listen up, because this is avahi.hosts(5) from the File Formats Manual, section 5, and she is lowkey iconic. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

avahi.hosts — the static host name file for avahi-daemon, fr fr. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

/etc/avahi/hosts

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So like, /etc/avahi/hosts is a file you can use to define static host name to IP address mappings for multicast DNS. It's giving "I know exactly who lives at this address and I'm not asking the network twice." 👑

This is especially useful when you're publishing DNS-SD services on behalf of other hosts — like, you're out here doing PR for somebody else's machine and you need the name-to-address receipts to back it up. For more on that whole situation, go peek at avahi.service(5). 💖

The file format is similar to the one used by /etc/hosts, no cap: on each line you put an IP address and then the corresponding host name. And listen — the host names should be in FQDN form, i.e. with the .local suffix appended. Don't skip the suffix, bestie, it's not a vibe, it's a requirement. ✨

lowkey the whole file is just "who dis" but for multicast DNS. 🫶

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org> — absolute legends, every single one. 🧚

Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/ ⭐

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• avahi-daemon(8)
• avahi.service(5)

go read them, iykyk 👀

💀 COMMENTS 💀

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth. not me being grateful for the tooling that made this whole thing possible 🙈

and that's the whole page, babe — avahi.hosts(5), straight out of the File Formats Manual (section 5, Manuals, User energy, no date on the stamp, that's just how she is). periodt. 💅💖✨