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I use Zeroconf to find local devices and services. That's a set of IETF standard protocols that originated as Apple's "Bonjour"; they're especially popular for discovering local printers. The KiwiSDR already runs 'avahi', which is the main Zeroconf daemon for Linux. (mDNS is just part of Zeroconf; that's how it responds to "kiwisdr.local".) If you create files under /etc/avahi/services, then it will also advertise those services so they can be found by a Zeroconf client like avahi-browse on Linux, the Safari web browser with the Zeroconf extension, or the third-party Discovery application on Mac OSX. I've attached the files /etc/avahi/ssh.service and /etc/avahi/http.service that I added to my KiwiSDRs. To get them past the forum's file name filter I had to append ".txt" to each one; remove before you place them in /etc/avahi.

One advantage of doing this, rather than running only mDNS, is that you can still discover a KiwiSDR whose name has been changed from "kiwisdr.local". I have had to do that when there's more than one on my network.