What does FreeNAS use for mDNS in 11.3?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi everyone,

today my FreeNAS (11.3-U2) suddenly is not visible via Bonjour from my Mac anymore. I could not find an instance of avahi-daemon in the FreeNAS system so what is FreeNAS using instead? I run avahi-daemon in all of my jails and VMs so I can conveniently identify them in my home LAN.

There is one line in /var/log/messages that may be related to that:

Code:

Apr 11 10:36:27 freenas-pmh kernel: pid 78 (python3.7), jid 0, uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)

I expect a complete reboot would "fix" it, but I'd like to look for the root cause.

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[seanm]

Mine mysteriously stopped recently too (I'm on 11.3-U1):

SOLVED - mDNS / Bonjour mysteriously stopped, how to restart?

It seems my FreeNAS 11.3-U1 mysteriously stopped doing mDNS / Bonjour advertising. Other than a reboot, which I'd like to avoid, how can I try to restart the service? Some searching suggests this command: midclt call mdnsadvertise.restart But I'm hoping someone could confirm if that's so...

www.ixsystems.com

I didn't investigate why.

This fixed it for me:
midclt call mdnsadvertise.restart