Setting up Avahi Services
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Locally Hosted Service (on same server as avahi daemon)
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Create Service File (/etc/avahi/services)
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Reload Avahi (avahi-daemon -r)
Note: This step may not be necessary. Avahi-daemon 0.6.25 on
Ubuntu 10.04,
automatically (re)loads changed or new config files, whereas
Avahi-daemon 0.6.23 on Debian 5.0.8 must be manually reloaded.
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Remotely Hosted Service (on different server from avahi daemon)
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Edit Avahi Hosts File (/etc/avahi/hosts)
Format is similar to /etc/hosts: 'IP_address [nodename].local'
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Create Service File (/etc/avahi/services)
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Reload Avahi (See note above)