Is it possible to let Avahi announce another hostname for the same machine?
I know it is meant to announce 'services', but usual clients like eg. browsers lack Avahi service support and rely on name resolution. Thus I would like to mark certain services by host names like my_fileserver.local, my_tools.local and so on. I may move around certain services on my machines then, and have the browser accessing the right machine for some service.
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This stackoverflow question sounds like what you're looking for.
Sounds like a kluge to me. I would either setup DNS internally, or if you have a router/switch, make use of it's ability to perform DNS for your internal lan.
Good DNS Server howto to start with.