On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM <mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was running > Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other > machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian 12 I > am not able to do that. I am not expert in computer so kindly help me. If > you guys need more info then please ask me as I don't know all the > networking stuff. Are you able to ping by IP address instead of host name? Are you able to resolve the DNS name with dig? dig hostname.local > > > OS: debian 12.10 [updated] > > ```avahi-daemon``` is installed, and running. > > ```libnss-mdns``` is also installed. nss-lookup.target is inactive though. > And As I tired to start it through systemd there was a error which read. > > Failed to start nss-lookup.target: Operation refused, unit > nss-lookup.target may be requested by dependency only (it is configured to > refuse manual start/stop). See system logs and 'systemctl status > nss-lookup.target' for details. > > There is already a line in /etc/nssitch.conf > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > systemd-resolved is not installed. > > relevant article > > https://wiki.debian.org/Avahi > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Avahi > > Thanks. > > -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
