Epiphany goes to IP address of local sites

I've not been able to test this myself...

Does the apache avahi broadcaster thing broadcast the domain-name or host-name properties?

If you have avahi-discover installed you should be able to see this.

Looks like 'address' is what you want?

Service Type: _http._tcp
Service Name: Intranet
Domain Name: local
Interface: eth0 IPv4
Address: intranet.flatlinesystems.net/192.168.0.1:80
TXT org.freedesktop.Avahi.cookie = 599466029

Hmm, possibly, I'm not 100% sure though, I've not experimented with avahi but I thought I'd read you needed a host-name and/or a domain-name. Though if you're using the apache plugin then that probably should do the right thing.

Hopefully someone else knows and will chime in.

I had this issue with the Zeroconf Service Discovery Applet too.

As it turns out they had already fixed it before I listed the bug.

As far as I know the hostname should be pulled from the address line (as it contains all relevant info - hostname/ip:port) The domain name isn't usable in this case, since it's likely to always be 'local' for most avahi users.

For non-vhost entries, or user directories (ie: the default server) it is broadcasted as

Address: techno.local/192.168.0.1:80

Ok, I can confirm this bug. But choosing always the address part won't work as there is nothing that resolves the .local address by default. you have to install libnss-mdns for this.
avahi has a function to check whether the system is able resolve .local hostnames but this is most probably not implemented in gnome-vfs (which epiphany uses for dns service discovery)

ok, let's re-assign this to gnomevfs. the gnomevfs dns-sd API should use the avahi function for determining whether the .local hostnames can be resolved or not and return these. I'll forward this upstream later

Should be fixed with gnome-vfs2 2.14.1-0ubuntu5

Looks good.

Cheers.