[avahi] Can;t get avahi to announce anything

[Keith Mitchell]

Hi,

I've been trying to get avahi (0.6.14) up and running for the last 
couple of days under FreeBSD 6.1 and have not had much success.  My 
setup is a little unusual in that I am running an ethernet dot1q trunk 
to my machine and have several logical vlan interfaces that I am trying 
to get avahi to use.  The ifconfig for the main and logical interfaces 
are as follows:

sk1: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet6 fe80::20c:41ff:fe1a:3c68%sk1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
vlan100: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan100 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 
        inet 192.168.100.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 100 parent interface: sk1
vlan111: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan111 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 
        inet 192.168.111.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 111 parent interface: sk1
vlan112: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan112 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9 
        inet 192.168.112.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.112.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 112 parent interface: sk1
vlan113: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan113 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
        inet 192.168.113.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.113.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 113 parent interface: sk1
vlan114: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan114 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb 
        inet 192.168.114.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.114.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 114 parent interface: sk1
vlan115: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::213:d4ff:fe5b:d7a%vlan115 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc 
        inet 192.168.115.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.115.255
        ether 00:0c:41:1a:3c:68
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        vlan: 115 parent interface: sk1


Avahi starts up ok and does send out the multicast join on all of the 
vlan interfaces as I would expect and acts like it is working from the 
logs, but I never see it try to send any annoucnements out.  
avahi-browse does see announcements from the macs on my network, but it 
never sends out any announcements of its own.  I used tcpdump on both 
this machine and a mac and both machines do see the 'igmp' messages but 
not any actual mdns announcements from the FreeBSD machine running 
avahi.  I do, however, see the mdns announcements from the mac.

Output from 'avaha-daemon --debug':

Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.14 starting up.
WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service.
Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service.
Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service.
New relevant interface vlan115.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan115.IPv4 with address 192.168.115.3.
New relevant interface vlan114.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan114.IPv4 with address 192.168.114.3.
New relevant interface vlan113.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan113.IPv4 with address 192.168.113.3.
New relevant interface vlan112.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan112.IPv4 with address 192.168.112.3.
New relevant interface vlan111.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan111.IPv4 with address 192.168.111.3.
New relevant interface vlan100.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vlan100.IPv4 with address 192.168.100.3.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Server startup complete. Host name is inferno.local. Local service cookie is 220508407.
Service "Remote Terminal on inferno" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Service "SFTP File Transfer on inferno" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Service "AFP service on inferno" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service) successfully established.


My config:

[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=no
enable-dbus=yes
disallow-other-stacks=yes

[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes

[publish]
disable-publishing=no
disable-user-service-publishing=no
add-service-cookie=yes
publish-addresses=yes
publish-hinfo=yes
publish-workstation=yes
publish-domain=yes

[rlimits]
rlimit-core=0
rlimit-data=4194304
rlimit-fsize=0
rlimit-nofile=30
rlimit-stack=4194304
rlimit-nproc=3


Anyone know what is wrong or what I could be doing wrong here?

Thanks.

-- 
Keith Mitchell
Email: kmitch at guru.org			PGP key available upon request