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Setup avahi-daemon on Ubuntu for so you can reach hostname `ubuntu.local` from host OS
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sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover avahi-utils libnss-mdns mdns-scan
@fade2gray
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Glad I stumbled on this. avahi-daemon alone worked for me on Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS. I could even log in to Virtualmin/Webmin's control panel using the hostname after adding a rule for the mdns service in firewalld.

Thank you.

@donbarthel
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I'm not sure what's wrong on my Ubuntu system. avahi-browse -a shows my five local mDNS devices on the network by their host names. However, if I try avahi-resolve-host-name on any one of them it gives me a "Timeout reached". I'm unable to ping any of them. I've installed everything described in this thread, and I've tried the various settings. The behavior remains unchanged. Any thoughts what I may be missing?

Try the hostname without the ".local". I have an Octopi server (its a 3D printer appliance) on a Raspberry Pi and sometimes octopi.local works and sometimes just octopi. Not sure why. Then I just recently installed Avahi on a virtual machine and no matter what I did hostname.local didn't work. Then I tried hostname by itself without a .local and viola! SSH and web browser can both reach it that way.

@Bandicoot
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May I suggest the following as an all-in-one? sudo apt update && sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover avahi-utils libnss-mdns mdns-scan && sudo apt upgrade. Once that looks good, sudo reboot. That got me going on my new Ubuntu install on the TuringPi RK-1 modules.

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