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I recently discovered avahi. It help you when you when to resolve hostname for the local network. But in my situation I've got a issue.

I decided to host a machine called a.alpha and a another called b.alpha. In a near future I will also use some machine called a.beta and b.beta. My problem is that from a.alpha I can resolve a.alpha.local hostname, but currently I can't resolve a.alpha.local from b.alpha.

So when I will decide to use the .beta extension I will have some issues.

Is it normal that the machine "a.alpha" doesn't expos the entire hostname to mdns ?

I know i can change the naming method (saying use a-alpha instead of a.alpha). But I like it this way.

So the question is: Is it possible to use dotted name in the /etc/hostname and to resolve it using avahi?

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see https://serverfault.com/questions/229331/linitation-in-linux-hostname-about-dot

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