Avahi Aliases

Copyright 2013 Zenobius Jiricek

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

Basically:

1. You can use this for commerical and personal projects.
2. You must give me credit in your product.
3. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

But you should really read the full liscense :

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Please note

Use the insights button and find an updated fork. I am no longer using Vagrant.

This fork is on github.com/till ~~and actually maintained~~. I currently target Vagrant with Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) and Python 2.7 to keep this service running there.

All additions are welcome. :)

Install

sudo apt-get install python-avahi python-pip
sudo pip install git+git://github.com/till/avahi-aliases.git@topics/make-it-run

Uninstall

sudo pip uninstall avahi-aliases

Usage

Daemon Control (upstart):

	sudo start avahi-aliases
	sudo restart avahi-aliases
	sudo stop avahi-aliases

Creating Aliases

1. sudo nano /etc/avahi/aliases.d/default
2. insert something.local on a new line
3. save
4. ???
5. profit

Notes: * aliases must end in .local * One alias per line * blank lines are ignored * lines prefixed with # are ignored * you must manually restart the daemon after modifying alias files

Automation

See the following cookbooks to get an idea how automation around this service works: https://github.com/till/easybib-cookbooks/tree/master/avahi