Re: DNS resolution on local network

Phil Weir <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
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On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Bob Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Thanks Phil for the tip - will check that
> out. Windows machine has iTunes installed which AFAIK also installs the
> Bonjouir client. Android tablet doesn't resolve it.
>
While I'm pretty sketchy on Win/OSX networking stuff, it looks like
Bonjour only handles resolution of "*.local" names - maybe try pinging
riwaka.local? Apparently Android doesn't come with mDNS, but there may
be some way of installing JmDNS.
P

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