[avahi] Strange MDNS response from Axis cameras

[Sebastien Estienne]

On 2/7/06, Iván Sánchez Ortega <i.sanchez at mirame.net> wrote:
> El Martes, 7 de Febrero de 2006 13:57, Sebastien Estienne escribió:
> > does "avahi-resolve-host-name axis-00408cxxxxxx.local" returns the
> > link local ip?
>
> ivan at silverspark:~$ avahi-resolve-host-name axis-00408cxxxxxx.local
> axis-00408cxxxxxx.local 169.254.154.134
>
> :-(
>
>
> > you could try setting a link local address on your host as an alias ip.
>
> Do you mean, something like "ifconfig eth0:0 169.254.whatever.whatever" ? That
> doesn't look like a clean solution IMHO... I'd like to be able to get the
> static IP in a direct way... :-/
>

or using zcip / zeroconf package from debian/ubuntu that does that
automatically, but it may not be a clean solution in your use case

>
>
> By the way, these toys seem to use Apple's mDNSResponder 58.3, according to
> the manufacturer [1]. I wonder is this behaviour is also found on Macs...

i have a mac and i've never seems this behaviour.

I think some people on this mailing list have better knowlegde about
Mdns to answer your issue, hope you'll get answers from them


>
> [1]
> http://ftp.axis.se/pub_soft/cam_srv/cam_213/4_30/thirdpartysoftwarelicenses_213_430.txt
>
>
> P.S.: I'm usually lurking out on #avahi @freenode IRC.
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