avahi.hosts(5)

avahi.hosts5

Avahi-daemon static host name file

Usage

/etc/avahi/hosts

Overview

/etc/avahi/hosts is a file which may be used to define static host name to IP address mappings for multicast DNS. This is especially useful when publishing DNS-SD services on behalf of other hosts. See avahi.service(5) for more information.

The file format is similar to the one of /etc/hosts: on each line an IP address and the corresponding host name. The host names should be in FQDN form, i.e. with appended .local suffix.

Comments

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

Releases

Unchanged in 11 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–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.