Multicast-dns now works out of box with systemd-resolved and Networkmanager without avahi[Focal]]

[khurshid.alam]

Tested this on Pixel3a, Rasberry pi, Pinephone & Oppo f1.

Make partition writable

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Create these files with following content, without affecting update or anything, create folder path witjh mkdir -p if required

/etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/mdns-systemd-resolved.conf

[Resolve]
MulticastDNS=yes

/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/mdns.conf

[connection]
connection.mdns=2

Reboot or restart systemd-resolved.service and NetworkManager.service. Do this on your local machine as well (may also need reboot)

Restart sshd. (sudo systemctl restart sshd)

Now we can ssh into phone with hostaname.local

ssh phablet@ubuntu-phablet.local

And .local domains now resolves.

$ resolvectl query -4 ubuntu-phablet.local
ubuntu-phablet.local: 192.168.29.144           -- link: wlan0

-- Information acquired via protocol DNS in 16.6ms.
-- Data is authenticated: yes

Remount filesystem as readonly

sudo mount -o remount,ro /

We can also broadcast sftp with systemd-dnssd

/etc/systemd/dnssd/sftp.dnssd

[Service]
Name=%H
Type=_sftp-ssh._tcp
Port=22

And it will appear on nautilus network share