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Why not just type in "mates-pc" and have functional mDNS and not have to memorize a bunch of numbers?

Why not just expect your OS's DNS setup to actually just work?

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Because mDNS usually doesn't work and just expecting it to work doesn't change that?

> Why not just expect your OS's DNS setup to actually just work?

Maybe use an OS or DNS stack that isn't terrible?

Incredible asking for a not-broken DNS and IP stack is just too far out there when it seems most of the closed source OS platforms seem to manage just fine.

Or let me guess, you've specifically configured it to not "leak" such useful information?

Skill issue. Works fine for me in a mixed Linux/Apple environment.

I didn't write any mDNS software. Blame those guys.

Well I mean “those guys” did a good job and the network administrator might need to do some debugging.

I never have to debug why my dhcp server isn't handing out ipv4 addresses or deal with conflicts, but if I did, it'd break mdns too. mdns is an extra moving part to deal with.

I've had numerous issues with dhcp servers over the years and clients not understanding their responses. Acting like they never have issues is just burying your head in the sand. mDNS often works just fine on most common OSes, if you don't explicitly block them.

Default home router out of the box is not going to have DHCP issues. Custom config or bigger network, sure, I've dealt with it too.

By debugging I mean just checking if you have not blocked broadcast packets at the firewall or some similar misconfiguration. I doubt it’s actual bugs when it doesn’t work. On your second point, it’s actually more resilient than DHCP because it works with IPv6 too.

Idk, just checked my LAN-connected Mac's arp tables now and none of the hostnames are there, even after I ping the multicast. Haven't messed with any settings.

Does anything respond to the multicast ping? If that doesn’t work then mDNS isn’t going to either. Router config is the likely culprit.

Yeah they respond. `ping mdns.mcast.net`, shows responses from ip addresses I recognize on my LAN, `arp -a`, still no hostnames. Tried all the other suggestions online too. Tried on my Mac and Rpi, same network, just a single ethernet LAN.

Router is all default except that I port-forwarded something. Funny enough, it sees the hostnames. I'm guessing it's some problem with both my computers, but no real need to fix this because I memorized the addrs already.

What network administrator?

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