[avahi] Patch for gentoo compilation

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Fri Jul 1 11:37:54 PDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:22:26PM -0500, Steev wrote:
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> Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Thu, 30.06.05 11:40, Steev (steev at steev.net) wrote:
> > It should. (Although it isn't recommended to run more than one mDNS
> > stack on the same machine simultaneously, which is what you do: one in
> > avahi-discover, and one in avahi-daemon)
> > 
> > If avahi-discover doesn't show locally registered services, please run
> > the following command, and show me the output:
> > 
> >      dig -p5353 @224.0.0.251 _services._dns-sd._udp.local PTR
> >      
> > Do you run a firewall or something which might inhibit mDNS traffic?
> > 
> 
> I don't run a firewall, though I do have firestarter installed, I
> haven't run it in a long while.  I have howl 0.9.8 installed, but I do
> not have mDNSresponder installed.  So nothing else should be using the
> mDNS "stack"(is that the correct term?)

If I recall correctly, firestarter inserts its firewall rules on system
startup.

check iptables -nvL as root.

Cheers,
Trent

> 
> > 
> > It looks fine. Is it possible that you run avahi together with another
> > mDNS daemon (e.g. HOWL)? If the service above is the only service you
> > register a conflict should not happen. I am a little puzzled.
> > 
> > Lennart
> 
> As far as I know thats the only service, nmap shows that port 22 is
> open, but nothing else is.  Here is how I ran it.
> 
> steev at mebius ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/sshd start
>  * Starting sshd ...
>   [ ok ]
> steev at mebius ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi restart
>  * Stopping avahi ...
>   [ ok ]
>  * Starting avahi ...
>   [ ok ]
> steev at mebius ~ $  dig -p5353 @224.0.0.251 _services._dns-sd._udp.local PTR
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> -p5353 @224.0.0.251 _services._dns-sd._udp.local PTR
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> steev at mebius ~ $ nmap localhost
> 
> Starting nmap 3.81 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-07-01 13:19 CDT
> Interesting ports on mebius (127.0.0.1):
> (The 1662 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> PORT   STATE SERVICE
> 22/tcp open  ssh
> 
> Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.274 seconds
> 
> I believe I am still running revision 154 though, I am about to update
> to 159, will try again and post if it changes anything.
> 
> - --
> Steev Klimaszewski
> www.steev.net
> steev at steev.net
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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