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Originally Posted by AustinSchuh
Nothing special that I recall... apt-get install avahi-daemon on Debian Jessie. You might need to install resolvconf as well. How avahi actually transfers addresses from the daemon to the standard name lookup stack is still a bit of a mystery to me. I haven't spent the time to truly trace down the call chain to figure out how it plugs into the standard resolvconf setup on Linux.
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The resolver sources are configured in with nsswitch.conf, which configures the resolver routines in libc. The man page for nsswitch.conf says that a source needs to provide a /lib/libnss_SERVICE.so.X to provide service. My desktop box seems to have them in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, and I see ones for mdns, mdns4, mdns6 among others.
nss is a nice extensible system.