{"id":1170,"date":"2015-04-13T17:59:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:00:56","slug":"mdns-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/mdns-update\/","title":{"rendered":"mDNS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/bonjour-mdns-and-itunes-home-sharing-on-edgeos\/\" target=\"_blank\">last update<\/a> on getting Bonjour\/mDNS working on my network ended with \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke\u201d\u2026 Sadly, the broke state cropped up at some point between then and now. Home sharing with the Apple TV was no longer working, and nothing had changed on my end to break it. Apple <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2015\/01\/why-dns-in-os-x-10-10-is-broken-and-what-you-can-do-to-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">may have changed things<\/a> on their end, breaking stuff, but regardless of the cause, my network wasn\u2019t working right.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the fine people on the EdgeOS boards had already fixed this, amusingly enough even before my earlier attempts to get it working right. Instead of using mDNS reflector, using mDNS repeater apparently works much better. Specifically, following the instructions <a href=\"https:\/\/community.ubnt.com\/t5\/EdgeMAX\/mDNS-bonjour-forwarding\/m-p\/1069613#M45443\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> fixed things nicely. Until the next time something breaks, that is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last update on getting Bonjour\/mDNS working on my network ended with \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke\u201d\u2026 Sadly, the broke state cropped up at some point between then and now. Home sharing with the Apple TV was no longer working, and nothing had changed on my end to break it. Apple may have changed things on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nathanhunstad.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/mdns-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">mDNS Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[265,251,264],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-2","tag-bonjour","tag-edgeos","tag-mdns","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Something broke on my mDNS\/Bonjour home network setup, but the fix was easy.\" \/>\n\t<meta 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