[avahi] avahi-daemon with a very long hostname

Sebastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 04:35:44 PST 2005


hello,

i tested avahi with a very long hostname,
the hostname is cut at 63,64 chars, but the service group is ignored:

# hostname aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
# avahi-daemon
Found user 'avahi' (UID 1001) and group 'avahi' (GID 1000).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6 starting up.
Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service.
New relevant interface vr0.IPv6.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vr0.IPv6 with address
fe80:1::250:baff:fec6:7ed5
New relevant interface vr0.IPv4.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vr0.IPv4 with address 172.16.101.11
Network interface enumeration completed.
Adding HINFO record with values 'I386/NETBSD'
Registering new address fe80:1::250:baff:fec6:7ed5 on vr0.
Registering new address 172.16.101.11 on vr0.
Server startup complete. Host name is
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.local.
Local service cookie is 1528565460.
Failed to add service 'Remote Terminal on
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' of
type '_ssh._tcp', ignoring service group
(/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service): Invalid service name


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Sebastien Estienne


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