Centos avahi mdns

Avahi mdns is similar to Apple Bonjour and allows hosts to be referenced using the hostname on the the local network (LAN), without adding a DNS record.

#Install the avahi mdns, start the service and enable at boot time

> yum install avahi avahi-tools nss-mdns

> yum start avahi-daemon

> yum enable avahi-daemon

Test the service is operational with

ping myhost.local

nss-mdns must be installed before the host can ping itself using the .locak domain

Avahi may prefer to return IPv6 addresses.  To force Avahi to use IPv4 disable IPv6 in the network configuration.