After some further troubleshooting, it looks like my power pc can send multicast packets, but it does not receive them. Even when I ping 224.0.0.251, the packets don't show up on the power pc network interface.<div><br> </div><div>I'm guessing this is the root cause of my problem. If multicast isn't working correctly, perhaps it isn't too surprising that I'm seeing strange Avahi behavior.</div><div><br></div><div>-Michael<br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Lennart Poettering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, 07.07.11 17:34, Michael Jeung (<a href="mailto:jeungster@gmail.com">jeungster@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br> <br> > Greetings,<br> ><br> > I'm new to avahi and I'm struggling with a problem: Under what circumstances<br> > will an avahi record disappear from avahi-browse?<br> <br> </div>When the server which registered it tells us that it is gone now. Or<br> when the network we found it one ceases to be accessible (for example,<br> the local iface we found it on goes away.)<br> <div class="im"><br> ><br> > However, a few seconds after I turn on the second avahi-daemon, the first<br> > avahi record disappears:<br> ><br> > - eth1 IPv4 FooApplication _service._tcp local<br> ><br> > If I then restart the avahi-daemon on the first power pc, the opposite<br> > happens: The first avahi record (Foo) returns and the second avahi record<br> > (Bar) disappears from avahi-browse.<br> ><br> > I'm trying to understand what would cause this behavior. What causes an<br> > avahi-record to disappear from avahi-browse? It seems to me that my<br> > avahi-daemons are interfering with one another, even though they are running<br> > on separate devices. Thoughts?<br> <br> </div>No idea. Check the logs whether something else happened at the same<br> time. For example, when you encounter a name conflict of some kinda<br> avahi will log about this. Or if a network interface stops being<br> available it will log that too.<br> <br> Lennart<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.<br> _______________________________________________<br> avahi mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:avahi@lists.freedesktop.org">avahi@lists.freedesktop.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br></div>