Avahi Aliases!

Do this:

Install and setup

sudo ./install.sh
#add aliases to /etc/avahi/aliases
sudo avahi-publish-aliases

Uninstall

sudo ./uninstall.sh

systemd

Included is an installer for a systemd service. I've only tested this on Fedora 17.

sudo ./install-systemd
sudo systemctl <start|stop|restart> avahi-alias.serivce

init.d script

Included is an installer for an /etc/init.d script (tested on Debian Squeeze)

sudo ./install-init.sh

Fedora 13+

Requires dbus-python, avahi-ui-tools Python bindings seem to have been in avahi-tools pre F13 and have been moved.

Ubuntu 10+, Debian

Requires python-dbus, python-avahi