[avahi] lLibavahi-qt4 not provided in OpenSuse repositories

[Daniel Wynne]

Hi Lennart!

Me again :-)

The libavahi-qt4 lib seems to be not provided in the OpenSuse standard
repos. Is this right, or am I just looking at the wrong place? All other
Avahi-libs are available.

Thanx

Daniel


On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 01:52 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 28.05.09 13:21, Florian Erfurth (f.erfurth at reel-multimedia.com) wrote:
> 
> > Ok, this means the host always(?) get 169.254.7.XXX-Address before 
> > getting IP from /etc/network/interfaces, right? Thank you for your tip, 
> > but I cannot use "ip addr" on client if I want to know the IP of the
> > host.
> 
> Uh? Not sure I understand what you mean.
> 
> Avahi only announces one address per host name and interface. It tries
> to be smart and picks the routable address over the IPv4LL address if
> both are configured on the same interface.
> 
> Other mDNS implementations my have implemented this differently, and
> might even register both addresseson the network. When Avahi discovers
> that it is not deterministc which one of those it picks.
> 
> > > On a local network it shouldn't matter which adress is picked for
> > > connection as long as it is a valid one. That's why it is not
> > > deterministic which address is handed to applications when they try to
> > > resolve a host name.
> > >   
> > Sorry, you're saying "169.254.7.XXX"-Adress is a valid address? Here its 
> > not valid since the network-setting is given (static IP, netmask ...). 
> > If I try to ping from client, I get "Destination Net Unreachable".
> 
> Yes, of course. 169.254.x.x addresses are valid ipv4ll adresses. Some
> older OSes/distros/stacks don't know them. However everything recent
> knows it. In fact Windows knows them since 95b, MacOS X since about
> forever. And the better Linux distributions since quite some time too.
> 
> Lennart
>