How can I query .local bonjour DNS entries?

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Nevir picture Nevir · May 14, 2012 · Viewed 11.7k times · Source

It's pretty straightforward to query out the guts of a DNS-SD entry via dig by asking your nameserver directly; but for multicast DNS, I'm not sure where to look.

Edit: My motivation is to be able to see example DNS entries so that I can better configure static bonjour entries for my OS X machines.

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Nevir picture Nevir · May 14, 2012

Aha, the secret is the multicast address/port.

For example, to query available AFP servers:

dig @224.0.0.251 -p 5353 -t ptr _afpovertcp._tcp.local

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