[avahi] Re: Name resolution problem

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Mon Sep 5 12:05:09 PDT 2005


I've seen similar issues caused by having more than 1 IP on an
interface, it was sending out packets with a different source IP that it
was registered/using and this resulted in things breaking.

Trent

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:09:26AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 08:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > The workstation name is being broadcast, but the name resolution isn't.
> > I'm about to start hitting the network with ethereal, but I though I'd
> > post now in case anyone has any good ideas.
> 
> I'm beginning to think this is a problem with my router, the two
> machines are on the same network but there is a bridge between them
> (Intel is on wireless, PPC on wired).  What is interesting is that
> various combinations of restarting avahi on both machines results in
> some things working.  If I start avahi locally first and then start it
> on remotely, the remote services are available.  If I then restart the
> local avahi, the remote services disappear.
> 
> Does avahi do an initial broadcast in a different manner which would
> explain this behaviour?
> 
> Ross
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
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