Re: searching for hosts in domain local

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Sun 17 Apr 2016 at 09:42:38 (-0700), Dan Hitt wrote:
> If there's a way to determine if i'm running mDNS on my main linux
> machine i'm certainly interested, but i don't want to be too greedy about this.
> Because, after all, maybe it is reasonable that if my main linux
> machine is sending all these packets around it needs more help
> in determining what's on the local network.

$ grep -i mdns /etc/services 
mdns            5353/tcp                        # Multicast DNS
mdns            5353/udp
$ netstat -n -a -e | grep 5353
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5353        0.0.0.0:*     103        14857      
udp6       0      0 :::5353             :::*          103        14858      
$ 

Cheers,
David.