On Wed 28 Dec 2016 at 19:54:34 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > However, I now discover that Avahi is not doing its thing properly any > more, and other machines on my network cannot see this machine by name. > Its IP address right now is 192.168.11.13 and its name is affinity. I > have another machine on my network, a jessie box, which is called kazuki > and happens to be at IP 192.168.11.4 right now. From kazuki I can ping > affinity by IP address, and likewise from affinity I can ping kazuki by > IP address, but ping kazuki.local from affinity and ping affinity.local > from kazuki both fail with "ping: unknown host X" where X is the machine > I am trying to ping, after a pause that suggests some sort of attempt to > find the other machine is being made.
You do have libnss-mdns installed and the line hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns in /etc/nsswitch? -- Brian.