“Avahi is a free Zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) implementation, including a system for multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).”

Merci Wikipédia :)

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Il faut :

• installer le paquet nss-mdns
• éditer le fichier de config /etc/nssswitch.conf
• modifier la ligne hots pour rajouter mdns_minimal :

hosts: files mdns_minimal dns myhostname