[avahi] avahi-daemon with Bonjour clients

[Lennart Poettering]

fOn Sun, 01.07.07 20:10, Douglas Choma (doug at nakediron.com) wrote:

> 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.

Does resolving the hostname of the Debian machine from one of the
MacOSX machine with a tool like "ping" work?

Does resolving the local host name on the Linux machine work?
(requires an installation of nss-mdns)

Do you have some kind of firewall running?

Or maybe some bug network driver (many WLAN drivers are borked when it
comes to multicasting)? Try setting the +allmuti or +promisc flag.

If all this doesn't help please create a network dump with tcpdump or
wireshark and capture all udp traffic on port 5353, and send it to me!

Lennart

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