[avahi] Disappearing and reappearing service if a text is changed

[Florian Erfurth]

Lennart Poettering schrieb:
> On Mon, 25.05.09 15:57, Florian Erfurth (f.erfurth at reel-multimedia.com) wrote:
>   
>> Hi, I wrote two applications (1 for server and 1 for client). On
>> Server-Side a service-file (in /etc/avahi/services/...) is written if
>> service-text is changed. Sometimes on Client I got such DEBUG-Info:
>> avahithread.c(203): service REMOVE: service='Floh' type='_boxMySQL._tcp'
>> domain='local'
>> avahithread.c(195): NEW: service='Floh' type='_boxMySQL._tcp'
>> domain='local'
>>     
> Seems like the servcie refresh packets didn't get through.
>   
So its not my fault (programming side)?
>> And seldom such bad thing happens (which must not happen :( ):
>> (Resolver) Failed to resolve service 'Floh' of type '_boxMySQL._tcp' in
>> domain 'local': Timeout reached
>>
>> Is there a way to get out why Timeout is reached?
>>     
>
> The timeout is reached because we didn't get a reply in time. 
>
> You probably have some kind of packet loss on your network (or in the
> local queuing).
>   
I don't think I'm loosing packets often here, but I'll test it. Can I 
increase the timeout-value?
> mDNS is not a reliable protocol, by design. You should not make
> reliability assumptions it cannot provide.
>   
Sure... but is there any alternative for keeping a list of hosts and its 
IPs? I think not.
cu Floh