[avahi] Resolving multiple IPV6 address

[Kevin Ediger]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 07.11.08 09:32, Kevin Ediger (kevin.ediger at licor.com) wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>> I'm writing a QT application that uses avahi to resolve IPV4 and IPV6
>> addresses. I would like to have avahi return all IPV6 addresses
>> registered to a particular host, but I've been unable to resolve more
>> than 1. Sometimes I get the link-local and sometimes the globally scoped
>> address. I tracked the issue to avahi-core/resolve-service.c in
>> record_browser_callback() where it only reports the first address
>> resolved.
>>     
>
> This is intended behaviour. On the local network it shouldn't matter
> which address you use. We only return a single one for simplicity
> reasons. Also, we can never know when the response is complete, so it
> is difficult to return more than one.
>
> Also note that Avahi will never publish more than one address record
> per host, to minimize traffic. So the entire feature is a bit useless
> I would say.
>
>   
>> I included a patch that reports all addresses.
>>     
>
> Hmm, I won't merge that patch. Sorry.
>
> Right now it is documented that if you keep open a resolver after the
> first successful resolving it will inform you about the entity going
> away or changing. The way you implemented this would not be
> discernable from the case where the RR changes.
>
> Sorry,
>
> Lennart
>
>   
OK, that makes sense. Thanks for looking at this.

-Kevin

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Kevin Ediger
Principal Design Engineer, Software
LI-COR Biosciences
Lincoln, NE
kevin.ediger at licor.com