avahi-set-host-name(1)

avahi-set-host-name1

Change mdns host name

Usage

avahi-set-host-name host-name

Overview

Set the mDNS host name of a currently running Avahi daemon. The effect of this operation is not persistent across daemon restarts. This operation is usually privileged.

Options

-v | --verbose

Enable verbose mode.

-h | --help

Show help.

-V | --version

Show version information.

Comments

This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0–Arch

Authors

The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

From avahi 1:0.9rc5-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.