Resolving service name conflicts

[Michael Richardson]

Asmitha Karunanithi <asmithakarun at gmail.com> wrote:
    > Yup, it would be like "ssh-hostname" because there would be service name
    > conflicts, say if there are 100 systems in the network publishing the
    > service with the same name, there would be name conflicts for 100 times and
    > finally, the service would be published as "ssh#101" to the network.

If I understood correctly.

That goes against what RFC6762/6763 say.
There is a deconflict system is there for a purpose, and avahi handles it
well, and being able to find all the *ssh* services is actually useful.
There can be other information in the PTR/SRV record.
One can ssh to hostname.local if you know the hostname.


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