Avahi Aliases!

Do this:

Install and setup

sudo ./install-systemd.sh
#add aliases to /etc/avahi/aliases
sudo avahi-publish-aliases

Uninstall

sudo ./uninstall-systemd.sh

systemd

Included is an installer for a systemd service. Tested this on Ubuntu 18.x.

sudo ./install-systemd

Ubuntu 18+, Debian

Requires python-dbus, python-avahi

Usage

Daemon Control:

	sudo service avahi-alias start
	sudo service avahi-alias restart
	sudo service avahi-alias stop

Creating Aliases

1. sudo nano /etc/avahi/aliases.d/default
2. insert something.local on a new line
3. save
4. ???
5. profit

Notes:

* aliases must end in `.local`
* One alias per line
* blank lines are ignored
* lines prefixed with `#` are ignored
* you must manually restart the daemon after modifying alias files

Contributions & acknowledgements :

1. Original sources from avahi: http://www.avahi.org/wiki/Examples/PythonPublishAlias
2. Discussion on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/775233/how-to-route-all-subdomains-to-a-single-host-using-mdns?answertab=votes#tab-top
3. Original github repo: https://github.com/airtonix/avahi-aliases
4. Original systemd repo : https://github.com/5sw/avahi-aliases.git
5. Service implementation : https://gist.github.com/gnue/ba0e9e6e52eac2d324d73dacefb0b6cf