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

[Brian McKee]

On 23-Dec-08, at 4:25 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Tue, 23.12.08 14:32, Brian McKee (map at map-heb.com) wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You need to allow mDNS traffic to port 5353 coming from any host on
> the LAN and going to any host on the local LAN or going to the mDNS
> group 224.0.0.251.

Just as a partial update to this issue.  The problem seems to be on  
the Mac side, not Avahi.  Have dropped for now.

Brian
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