Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

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On Monday, April 28th, Anssi Saari - anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi wrote:


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> Do you have a firewall in any computer? mdns uses UDP port 5353 and that
> would need to be allowed for it to work.

Yes, I have enabled firewall on both systems. But So was in the previous system, and mDNS used to work just fine. I will open and check port 5353, if that works.

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> I've generally found mdns to be fairly unreliable, works sometimes and
> sometimes doesn't. Still, better to have it even as a flaky backup DNS
> than no DNS, if actual DNS has issues or is unreachable.

Thanks.