Bonjour networking for Raspberry Pi

I have a lot of Apple hardware (MacBook, Hackintosh, iPhone, etc.) configured with Bonjour and I want my RPi2 be resolved by network.

apt-get update
apt-get install -y avahi-daemon
update-rc.d avahi-daemon enable
service avahi-daemon stop
vi /etc/default/avahi-daemon

and change the line:

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1

to

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0

then start the Avahi-daemon with

service avahi-daemon start

Now we’re can test resolving by ping for example

$ ping raspberrypi.local
PING raspberrypi.local (192.168.1.102): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.439 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.446 ms
^C
--- raspberrypi.local ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.439/0.443/0.446/0.003 ms

Problem solved.

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