Setup Multicast DNS

MidnightBSD includes mDNSresponder in base. You can configure your local machine to access resources on your local network. This can be useful to ssh into Apple Mac systems, etc. This is sometimes called Bonjour.

To see other systems with mdns enabled on your network Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and add mdns to hosts line. It should read hosts: files mdns dns add mdnsd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf start mdnsd with service mdnsd start To advertise services on your local machine Add mdnsresponder_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf create a new file called /etc/mdnsresponder.conf in /etc/ file contents:

# # Example services file parsed by mDNSResponderPosix. # # Lines beginning with '#' are comments/ignored. # Blank lines indicate the end of a service record specification. # The first character of the service name can be a '#' if you escape it with # backslash to distinguish if from a comment line. # ie, "\#serviceName" will be registered as "#serviceName". # Note that any line beginning with white space is considered a blank line. # # The record format is: # # <service name> # <type>.<protocol> <optional domain> # <port number> # <zero or more strings for the text record, one string per line> # # <One or more blank lines between records> # # Examples shown below. #

#serviceName1 #_afpovertcp._tcp. #548 #name=val1

SSH _ssh._tcp. 22

#FTP #_ftp._tcp. #21

#HTTP #_http._tcp. #80

samba _smb._tcp 445

adisk _adisk._tcp 0 dk1=adVN=TimeMachine adVF=0x82

deviceinfo _device-info._tcp 0

model=Xserve