Raspberry pi bonjour

Using avahi-daemon:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libnss-mdns

On mac terminal:

$ ping -c 4 raspberrypi.local
PING raspberrypi.local (192.168.1.142): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.142: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.623 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.142: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=3.655 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.142: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.707 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.142: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.710 ms

--- raspberrypi.local ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.623/2.424/3.655/0.829 ms

$ ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

Configuring avahi-daemon

Now wouldn’t it be nice if the Mac showed your Pi under the shared section of the Finder sidebar? For this the Raspberry Pi needs to be advertising itself on the network, Apple’s Zero Configuration protocol for this is called Bonjour. Configure Avahi for bonjour:

First:

$ sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon

Make sure it runs at startup:

$ sudo update-rc.d avahi-daemon defaults

Create a configuration file containing information about the server. Run:

$ sudo nano /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service

Enter (or copy/paste) the following:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
   <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
   <service>
      <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
      <port>548</port>
   </service>
</service-group>

Press ctrl + x to exit, then press y to to save changes and return after confirming the location.

Restart Avahi: sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart