[avahi] avahi-browser returns IPv6 address rarely instead of ipv4

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 30.01.09 09:53, sundararaj reel (sundararaj.reel at googlemail.com) wrote:

> > Note that if your application only supports ipv4 .. your -application-
> > can request to publish on v4 only. (and browse on v4 only) without
> > disabling v6 system wide.
> >
> 
> How is it done (browse on v4 only)? I could not find an option to
> avahi-browse that restricts browsing to ipv4 addresses only and man page of
> avahi-browse does not talk about ipv4 . Or am I using the wrong application
> to browse for services ?
> I am using "avahi-browse 0.6.20".

avahi-browse doesn't allow you to do that. The underlying API does,
but that's not exposed in this specific tool. Patches welcome.

Lennart

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