[avahi] Can;t get avahi to announce anything
Trent Lloyd
lathiat at bur.st
Sun Oct 29 18:39:10 PST 2006
Hi Keith,
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:22:12PM -0500, Keith Mitchell wrote:
> I've been doing some debugging on this today and traced through the code
> in gdb and it looks like it is making it all the way to the sendmsg() call
> and that is succeeding, but nothing still makes it out the wire. Pokign
> around inside gdb, the src and dest addresses on the packets it is trying
> to send out look ok to me (src is the ip address on the interface and dst
> is the mDNS mcast group -- 224.0.0.251). Any idea on how to debug what is
> happening once the sendmsg system call is made? I would assume sendmsg
> would get a failure code if there was something wrong with the packet it
> got sent and it didn't know where to send it, etc.? I even took wireshark
> and looked at the physical ethernet interface just to make sure it wasn't
> get sent out on the physical interface untagged and the packets didn't
> show up at all (either vlan tagged or not).
>
> Since none of the previous versions work for me, its possible that this
> has something to do with my vlan setup, but i'm not not quite sure where
> to look from here.
Is it possible to try without VLANs on this system?
Also what does 'netstat -gn' say? does it show it as having jointed the
multicast groups on these interfaces?
Cheers,
Trent
>
> Thanks.
>
> Keith Mitchell wrote:
>
> I went back and tried 0.6.10, 0.6.5, and 0.6 and saw the same thing with
> all of them. So far I haven't had much luck with 0.5 since that was
> before it went into the FreeBSD port system and its looking for some
> older libs and such that I don't have installed. Is there anything I
> can look at/debug that would help pinpoint where the problem is?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Keith Mitchell wrote:
>
> No, I never see anything go out even on a browse. The browse just
> lists things as they are announced by the other system periodically.
>
> Trent Lloyd wrote:
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> Do you see *any* packets sent out by avahi at all? (e.g. if you do a
> browse do you see packets go out? It's possible there
> is a problem with the FreeBSD support there has been a few changes etc
> and unfortunately its hard to track 100% cross platform ability.
>
> I would appreciate it if you could go back a few versions and try it,
> e.g. give 0.6.10, 0.6.5, 0.6.0 and 0.5 a test and let me know the first
> you have success in (once you find that if you could then edge forward
> until you find the release that broke it it would be double plus good)
>
> Following that I'll see what I can do to try fix it for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Trent
>
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:05:58AM -0400, Keith Mitchell wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get avahi (0.6.14) up and running for the last
> couple of days under FreeBSD 6.1 and have not had much success. My
> setup is a little unusual in that I am running an ethernet dot1q trunk
> to my machine and have several logical vlan interfaces that I am trying
> to get avahi to use. The ifconfig for the main and logical interfaces
> are as follows:
>
> sk1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> inet6 fe80::20c:41ff:fe1a:3c68%sk1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan100: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan100 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
> inet 192.168.100.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 100 parent interface: sk1
> vlan111: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan111 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
> inet 192.168.111.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 111 parent interface: sk1
> vlan112: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan112 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
> inet 192.168.112.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.112.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 112 parent interface: sk1
> vlan113: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan113 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
> inet 192.168.113.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.113.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 113 parent interface: sk1
> vlan114: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan114 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
> inet 192.168.114.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.114.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 114 parent interface: sk1
> vlan115: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan115 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc
> inet 192.168.115.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.115.255
> ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
> media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> vlan: 115 parent interface: sk1
>
>
> Avahi starts up ok and does send out the multicast join on all of the
> vlan interfaces as I would expect and acts like it is working from the
> logs, but I never see it try to send any annoucnements out.
> avahi-browse does see announcements from the macs on my network, but it
> never sends out any announcements of its own. I used tcpdump on both
> this machine and a mac and both machines do see the 'igmp' messages but
> not any actual mdns announcements from the FreeBSD machine running
> avahi. I do, however, see the mdns announcements from the mac.
>
> Output from 'avaha-daemon --debug':
>
> Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
> Successfully dropped root privileges.
> avahi-daemon 0.6.14 starting up.
> WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
> Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service.
> Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service.
> Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service.
> New relevant interface vlan115.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan115.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.115.3.
> New relevant interface vlan114.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan114.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.114.3.
> New relevant interface vlan113.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan113.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.113.3.
> New relevant interface vlan112.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan112.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.112.3.
> New relevant interface vlan111.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan111.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.111.3.
> New relevant interface vlan100.IPv4 for mDNS.
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan100.IPv4 with address
> 192.168.100.3.
> Network interface enumeration completed.
> Server startup complete. Host name is inferno.local. Local service cookie
> is 220508407.
> Service "Remote Terminal on inferno"
> (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
> Service "SFTP File Transfer on inferno"
> (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
> Service "AFP service on inferno"
> (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service) successfully established.
>
>
> My config:
>
> [server]
> use-ipv4=yes
> use-ipv6=no
> enable-dbus=yes
> disallow-other-stacks=yes
>
> [wide-area]
> enable-wide-area=yes
>
> [publish]
> disable-publishing=no
> disable-user-service-publishing=no
> add-service-cookie=yes
> publish-addresses=yes
> publish-hinfo=yes
> publish-workstation=yes
> publish-domain=yes
>
> [rlimits]
> rlimit-core=0
> rlimit-data=4194304
> rlimit-fsize=0
> rlimit-nofile=30
> rlimit-stack=4194304
> rlimit-nproc=3
>
>
> Anyone know what is wrong or what I could be doing wrong here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Keith Mitchell
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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