Help with Avahi mDNS redirector, please

[sfx2000]

with avahi - it's supposed to be pretty simple...

avahi-browse -at

and

avahi-browse-domains -at

The big thing is to ensure that the local LAN is not set to .local, as avahi can go off the rails...

 

[sfx2000]

and my avahi conf...

[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=yes
ratelimit-interval-usec=1000000
ratelimit-burst=1000
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes
[publish]
publish-hinfo=no
publish-workstation=no
[reflector]
[rlimits]

 

[junior120872]

I really wish I could have gotten avahi reflector to work. I racked my brain and tried all of the different suggestions on here. I ended up multihoming my Homebridge server and running avahi on that. Worked like a charm. It's not ideal, but I may revisit running avahi reflector on my router in the future, when I can spare more time on it. Good luck!

 

[sfx2000]

I may revisit running avahi reflector on my router in the future, when I can spare more time on it. Good luck

I wouldn't bother - Avahi/Bonjour is a second class citizen with AsusWRT - always has been - they basically just don't care as it's not in their wheel house of features.

 

[jksmurf]

with avahi - it's supposed to be pretty simple...

avahi-browse -at

and

avahi-browse-domains -at

The big thing is to ensure that the local LAN is not set to .local, as avahi can go off the rails...

Thank you. I am not 100% sure what that does, could you elaborate what it would show in terms of what I am looking for?

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AX88U_PRO 3006.102.4_beta2 Sat Apr 19 16:20:12 UTC 2025
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root# avahi-browse -at
-sh: avahi-browse: not found
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root# avahi-browse-domains -at
-sh: avahi-browse-domains: not found
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root#

I guess I would need to install the avahi-utils entware package for this?
I'm a wee bit nervous that if I install that package, it will stuff up the existing avahi package if it is not needed.

and my avahi conf...

[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=yes
ratelimit-interval-usec=1000000
ratelimit-burst=1000
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes
[publish]
publish-hinfo=no
publish-workstation=no
[reflector]
[rlimits]

I might see if the use-ipv6=yes setting makes any difference.

I really wish I could have gotten avahi reflector to work. I racked my brain and tried all of the different suggestions on here. I ended up multihoming my Homebridge server and running avahi on that. Worked like a charm. It's not ideal, but I may revisit running avahi reflector on my router in the future, when I can spare more time on it. Good luck!

Actually I did have some measure of success; just not with all my networks.
Hence my dogged pursuit of a solution....

 

[junior120872]

Thank you. I am not 100% sure what that does, could you elaborate what it would show in terms of what I am looking for?

ASUSWRT-Merlin RT-AX88U_PRO 3006.102.4_beta2 Sat Apr 19 16:20:12 UTC 2025
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root# avahi-browse -at
-sh: avahi-browse: not found
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root# avahi-browse-domains -at
-sh: avahi-browse-domains: not found
xxxxxx@RT-AX88U-Pro:/tmp/home/root#

I guess I would need to install the avahi-utils entware package for this?
I'm a wee bit nervous if I install that it will stuff up the existing avahi package of it is not needed.


I might see if the use-ipv6=yes setting makes any difference.

Actually I did have some measure of success; just not with all my networks.
Hence my dogged pursuit of a solution....

That's good to hear. I had positive results with some of it too, but I couldn't get to work with some of my IoT devices. Once I set it up on the Homebridge server everything just worked. I was kicking myself for days. . I was thinking of splitting creating and addition Streaming network to put all of my Alexa, Sonos, Apple tvs, tvs, Roku, etc on so I may look at avahi on the router again before I configure a third ethernet device in my homebridge server. So many projects, so little time.

 

[ColinTaylor]

@jksmurf I suggest you move your discussion to a different/new thread as it is has become OT for this thread.

 

[jksmurf]

@jksmurf I suggest you move your discussion to a different/new thread as it is has become OT for this thread.

No problems, agree. Moved to here.