In my previous examples about ssh, vnc, I always have to check the IP address (192.168.xxx.xxx) of my Raspberry Pi locally with ifconfig, or login my router to look-up the connected IPs; because it will change dynamically. By assigning a static local domain to Raspberry Pi with avahi-daemon, I can use a local domain such as raspberrypi.local consistently.
Steps:
If you have computers running Apple’s OS X on your network, it already support it.
If you run on Windows, you have to install
Bonjour Print Services for Windows.
In Raspberry Pi side, enter the command:
$
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon
$
sudo insserv avahi-daemon
Create a configfile for Avahi at /etc/avahi/services/multiple.service, with the command:
$
sudo pico /etc/avahi/services/multiple.service
with content of:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?>
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_device-info._tcp</type>
<port>0</port>
<txt-record>model=local</txt-record>
</service>
<service>
<type>_ssh._tcp</type>
<port>22</port>
</service>
</service-group>
then run the command:
$
sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart
The local domain name of your Raspberry Pi will be <Raspberry Pi host name>.local, such as:
raspberrypi.local
After a moment, you can access Raspberry Pi with its new static domain.
Video demo:
reference:
http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup
