Download Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi and IoT devices, Ubuntu Core and all the Ubuntu flavours.Things as simple as: ping flibble.local work immediately in 18.04 but take about 5 seconds or so in 20.04. local hostnames has become slow since updated from 18.04 to 20.04. sudo apt install avahi-daemon Remotely check mDNS resolution from another computer. Avahi supports the mDNS/DNS-SD/RFC 3927/Zeroconf/Bonjour specification. If desired, enable Multicast DNS by installing Avahi. I want to use that dns name on other devices that are not OSX (like Prompt on my iPad/iPhone) to ssh back to my Mac when I'm out and about. I'm wondering how to use command line tools to find out the DNS name that Apple has assigned to my Mac. On Lion and iCloud, the old MobileMe and Snow Leopard mDNS naming has changed and no longer works.trying to install ubuntu-desktop resulted in the following messages: :~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop password for fusion: Reading package lists.
Android says it supports it but I still could not make it work. New versions of Windows and Ubuntu Os too. But if you plan on having the printer around a while, it's much less trouble just to give the printers fixed IP addresses. Avahi works great for discovering printers, so using the client libraries is sometimes useful.