[avahi] Problem seeing available services

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 12.02.08 09:21, Dave Lazar (hunkybill at gmail.com) wrote:

Hi!

> > > I am confused about where to fadebug my Workstation to again allow
> > > avahi-browse to show me the services available. Can someone please point
> > me
> > > to some debug techniques here. I have confirmed on my workstation that
> > > avahi-daemon is working. I am just not sure how to get it to find the
> > server
> > > services.
> >
> > FAQ #15?

Oh, BTW I am sorry for responding three times with the same
wisecracking response, I wasn't aware I was responding to the same guy
all the time. ;-)

> It would be nice if there was a collection linked to this item presenting
> the network drivers that exhibit this problem. If this is such a frequent
> problem, then the list must be pretty easy to populate. I mysel used to use
> the ipw3945 with no real ill effects, yet my investigations led me to
> erroneously believe my world would be rocked if I switched to the much
> improved iwl3945 driver. Now that I have done that and see that avahi on my
> local interface wlan0 no longer works, it is perplexing. Is it truly this
> driver. I have a VPN interface glued onto wlan0 called ham0, which is
> showing the services offered by my server, so clearly, the network card and
> driver are working fine on that subnet.

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> How is it explained that 192.168.1.0/32 does not work but 5.0.0.0/32 on the
> same card/driver combo does work??? If multicast is broken, would that not
> nullify the VPN too?

> 
> Interesting...

/32?

That looks very suspicious to me.

Please note that mDNS is not really suitable for usage over VPNs. FAQ #9.

Lennart

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