[avahi] Disappearing and reappearing service if a text is changed

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 28.05.09 13:21, Florian Erfurth (f.erfurth at reel-multimedia.com) wrote:

> Ok, this means the host always(?) get 169.254.7.XXX-Address before 
> getting IP from /etc/network/interfaces, right? Thank you for your tip, 
> but I cannot use "ip addr" on client if I want to know the IP of the
> host.

Uh? Not sure I understand what you mean.

Avahi only announces one address per host name and interface. It tries
to be smart and picks the routable address over the IPv4LL address if
both are configured on the same interface.

Other mDNS implementations my have implemented this differently, and
might even register both addresseson the network. When Avahi discovers
that it is not deterministc which one of those it picks.

> > On a local network it shouldn't matter which adress is picked for
> > connection as long as it is a valid one. That's why it is not
> > deterministic which address is handed to applications when they try to
> > resolve a host name.
> >   
> Sorry, you're saying "169.254.7.XXX"-Adress is a valid address? Here its 
> not valid since the network-setting is given (static IP, netmask ...). 
> If I try to ping from client, I get "Destination Net Unreachable".

Yes, of course. 169.254.x.x addresses are valid ipv4ll adresses. Some
older OSes/distros/stacks don't know them. However everything recent
knows it. In fact Windows knows them since 95b, MacOS X since about
forever. And the better Linux distributions since quite some time too.

Lennart

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