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Summary

Sometimes multicast DNS (mDNS) on my Windows 10 desktop gets hung up and doesn't resolve the names of other devices on the network.

I am connecting to SSH and web services running on several Raspberry Pi 3 B+ devices that I've installed the avahi-daemon on, so that they respond to mDNS requests. On a normal day, this works perfectly fine, but sometimes when I resume from sleep / hibernate in Windows 10, I get the following result.

As soon as I reboot my Windows 10 OS, mDNS magically starts working again.

PS> ssh username@device.local
ssh: Could not resolve hostname device.local: No such host is known.

PS> curl device.local:8080
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: device.local

Question ❓❓❓

Is there a way to reset the mDNS service without rebooting Windows 10 completely?

I can't find any related services except for Dnscache.

PS> gsv | ? name -match dns

Status   Name               DisplayName




Running  Dnscache           DNS Client

Actual Result

Hostname is not resolved

Expected Result

Hostname is resolved, and SSH and/or web connection is established.

Trevor Sullivan
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I resolve this by disabling & enabling the Wifi network adapter

You can refer to this answer for some more details

reFORtEM
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