Reach jails with hostname.local

[n1c0la84]

Hi all,

very n00b question here, but couldn't find a satisfying answer.

To reach FreeNAS control panel I digit freenas.local in the address bar and without any prior router DNS configuration it just works.
How is this achived? And how can I replicate this for services running in jails like transmission, sonarr, plex and so on?
I have read that you must put up a DNS server in yor LAN but there is must be a simpler way since like I said freenas.local works just out of the box.

Thanks for any pointers and sorry if maybe I'm being stupid lol
- NN

 

[seanm]

To reach FreeNAS control panel I digit freenas.local in the address bar and without any prior router DNS configuration it just works.
How is this achived?

With this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

Probably a fresh jail doesn't include such software and would need to be installed via some package.

 

[n1c0la84]

Actually I just found a solution with avahi-daemon.
Just installed it into the jail, disabled dbus, enabled it, started and worked like a charm!

Original post: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/mdnsd-airprint.23052/

But I checked in the base system and avahi is not installed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯