Avahi

I’ve had issues getting avahi (zeroconfig) to work properly on my first arch install. I was, I think, finally able to make everything work properly by doing the following. Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and make the host line look like¹:

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns

Finally run:

# systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service

Testing metric:

ping -c 1 `hostname`.local
avahi-resolve -n `hostname`.local
getent hosts `hostname`

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