[avahi] avahi-daemon stops working after undetermined period of time

[Brian McKee]

On 23-Dec-08, at 2:24 PM, Brian McKee wrote:

>
> On 23-Dec-08, at 1:53 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> If Avahi services only show up initially but then go away this sounds
>> a lot as if you'd have some kind of firewall running or some hardware
>> issue that disallows mDNS multicast packets (udp port 5353) to be
>> received by your computer but allows them to be sent.
>
> Ah - ok - that gives me something to chew on.  I'll report back.

Yep - I bet that was it - I haven't left it running long enough to  
prove for sure, but the firewall wasn't opened correctly.  Thought  
I'd done that earlier :-(

Do I need the entire 224.0.0.0/4 open?  or can I tighten that down a  
bit?  Just 224.0.0.251 didn't seem to be enough.

Brian
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