[avahi] avahi-daemon with Bonjour clients

[Douglas Choma]

I can't seem to figure out one small detail of getting this to work.   
I'm running a Linux box with Avahi (daemon only).  And the rest of  
the network is running OS X (10.4.10).

I already have a working volume shared on the Linux machine using the  
netatalk package.  I have no problem seeing all of the machines in  
the Finder (including trauma, the Linux box).  But if I click on  
"connect" for the Linux machine, I get the error "Connection  
Failed".  I know that it's a problem with the Mac resolving the IP  
address for trauma.local; because I can put the Linux server in my  
hosts file and it fixes the problem.

Isn't Avahi supposed to be providing the IP address for  
trauma.local?  Apparently the other Macs are providing that  
information because they all connect to one another.  I've read all  
the documentation I could find, and just can't seem to figure this  
out.  I'd like to avoid adding the server/ip to everyone's hosts file  
as that seems to negate the simplicity of the mDNS system.

If it's of any help, I've tried both the native packages (avahi- 
daemon and netatalk) from Debian etch.  And I've also tried my own  
versions compiled from source with the same results.


my afpd.service file:
***
<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
   <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
   <service>
     <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
     <port>548</port>
   </service>
</service-group>
***