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My debian is not discoverable via its hostname in my LAN.
I have a couple of other ubuntu machines in the LAN and they are all pingable via their hostnames.
on my debian:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ hostname
raspberrypi
on another machine in the same LAN:
ping raspberrypi
ping: unknown host raspberrypi
Your Ubuntu system has the Avahi daemon running while this is not the case for your Raspberry Pi. Install Avahi to solve the problem:
# apt-get install avahi-daemon avahi-discover libnss-mdns
raspberrypi.local
– Ulrich Dangel
May 26 '13 at 22:04
ps -x
– Sridhar Sarnobat
Apr 25 '14 at 5:32
Did a remove/install of avahi and insserv as suggested, rebooted the whole shebang. Worked.
If you can ping the IP address from another machine on the network, add the option -a to do a reverse lookup. I myself discovered that there's a max length of 15 chars for hostnames on my router.
ping -a 192.168.1.123
Pinging RASPBERRYPI [192.168.1.123] with 32 bytes of data:
...
As long as that doesn't tell you a name, thou shalt plough on.
If you have changed the hostname try installing samba on the Pi.
sudo apt-get install samba
Then try the following from your remote machine:
ping newhostname.local
And to ssh:
ssh pi@newhostname.local
