[avahi] Strange MDNS response from Axis cameras

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Tue Feb 7 05:55:44 PST 2006


On Tuesday 07 February 2006 21:10, Iván Sánchez Ortega 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

Try routing 169.254.0.0/16 out the interface in question.

Trent

>
> :-(
> :
> > 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... :-/
>
>
>
> 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...
>
> [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.


More information about the avahi mailing list