> I use Multicast DNS on my home network - mostly this is just for convenience, and so I don’t have to remember lots of different IP addresses. > NetBSD includ

> I use Multicast DNS on my home network - mostly this is just for convenience, and so I don’t have to remember lots of different IP addresses. > NetBSD includes multicast DNS support by default through a port of macOS’s mDNSResponder called mdnsd. It seems it’s available for FreeBSD but not a core part of the OS. I’m also under the impression that it’s more common to use Avahi (the Linux community’s answer to mDNSResponder) on FreeBSD, but I don’t know for certain. I use Avahi on a vnet Jail. I basically put every host on /usr/local/etc/avahi/hosts and this is enough for name resolution even if the system or device has no mDNS broadcasting capabilities.