Avahi aware ssh client?

[Christoph Langner]

This is not a bug, this is a enhancement proposal:

I work a lot with a couple of Linux Servers. They work fine and i really like the name resolution via Avahi/Zeroconf. It's really simple to use hostnames without a nameserver. A nice thing would be a avahi aware ssh client, so that i could e.g. type

# ssh some[tab]

and end up with

# ssh someserver.local

instead of typing the whole thing. At the end it should work the same way like filename completion inside the bash or package name completion with apt-get.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The ssh client isn't in a position to influence shell completion; this is up to the shell to implement.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

This feature is available in bash-completion 1.1 (currently in sid)

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

This bug is technically Fix Released in Lucid because we have bash-completion 1.1, but the feature is horribly broken on large networks, so I hope to have it removed.