Try using the Bonjour Browser app to see if mDNS services from your home domain (well, from your home domain DNS server) appear when you're on the road. It's an imperfect solution but short of writing an iPhone app or spending ages on some crazy VPN configuration I think Wide-Area Bonjour is your best bet.

Dec 18, 2012 · Let’s face it. Apple’s Bonjour protocol is likely here to stay, or at-least for the foreseeable future until Apple decides otherwise. If you have an Apple device and wish to do printing or require the use of its discovery services, you will very likely encounter Apple’s Bonjour protocol. The vpn client will need to be in the same subnet or also know as vlan or even broadcast domain as the other bonjour devices like printer, mac osx server, etc. In order to do so, a linux/unix server serving as the vpn will bridge one of it's network card which is in the same vlan/subnet. Jun 15, 2020 · Hi all, I'm working on a network that is based on a core 3750 stack running IP services IOS (12.2.52 from memory), with a number of edge switches - 3560's running IPBase IOS. The edge switches are purely layer 2 devices, and the only layer 3 interface on them is for management. Connection back to Bonjour for Windows and AirPort Base Stations may be configured to use Wide Area Bonjour which allows for wide area service discovery via a configured DNS server. Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of devices and services on a local network using industry standard IP protocols.

I have good and bad news about the integration of Wide Area Bonjour and VPN Activator. The good news is that I have been able to successfully integrate Wide Area Bonjour into VPN Activator. AirPrint shared printers are now listed in my VPN connected iPhone 4. The bad news is that I can’t print to them.

The Bonjour Preference Pane provides a user interface for using the wide-area aspects of Bonjour. The customer releases of Mac OS X Tiger and Bonjour for Windows include full wide-area Bonjour functionality for developers to utilize in their applications, but no user interface. The nearest solution to your requirement is 'Wide Area Bonjour' which is intended for use across routers or VLANs - which would have a router linking them. I suspect it will not be practical to get this working across a VPN connection.

I suspect the Bonjour protocol is not being commuicated across the VPN Turnnel by the Firewalls. I know Routers . do not pass broadcast. so maybe that what is going on? I do believe Bonjour has a wide-area service discovery. I do remember reading something about DHCP Help, in Cisco Routers, to activate DHCP Relay..I am not really sure.

This weekend I read up on this topic and found out that the culprit is Bonjour in conjunction with the subnetwork the client will be on, which is naturally created by the VPN connection. For Bonjour to be broadcasting the DiskStation's address to the subnetwork it would require Wide-Area Bonjour (WAB).