[avahi] Resolving multiple IPV6 address

[Kevin Ediger]

Oops... here's the patch inline....

diff -pur avahi-0.6.23-orig/avahi-core/resolve-service.c 
avahi-0.6.23/avahi-core/resolve-service.c
--- avahi-0.6.23-orig/avahi-core/resolve-service.c    2008-06-17 
18:13:44.000000000 -0500
+++ avahi-0.6.23/avahi-core/resolve-service.c    2008-11-06 
17:22:45.000000000 -0600
@@ -252,10 +252,13 @@ static void record_browser_callback(
 
                     assert(!(r->user_flags & AVAHI_LOOKUP_NO_ADDRESS));
 
-                    if (!r->address_record) {
-                        r->address_record = avahi_record_ref(record);
-                        changed = 1;
+                    if (r->address_record) {
+                        avahi_record_unref(r->address_record);
+                        r->address_record = NULL;
                     }
+           
+                    r->address_record = avahi_record_ref(record);
+                    changed = 1;
                     break;
                
                 default:


Kevin Ediger 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. I included a patch that reports all addresses.
>
> In order to resolve all addresses, the client must not free
> AvahiServiceResolver in the callback for the first address as in the
> example program client-browse-services.c in resolve_callback(). If the
> resolver is freed after receiving the first address, no more addresses
> will be sent.
>
> Thanks.
> -Kevin Edger
>
> --
> Kevin Ediger
> Principal Design Engineer, Software
> LI-COR Biosciences
> Lincoln, NE
> kevin.ediger at licor.com
>
>   

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