[avahi] Find services at localhost

[Trent Lloyd]

Hi Thomas,

On 01/10/2009, at 4:06 PM, Seng, Thomas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a avahi beginner.
>
> I do some tests with avahi using the examples. I start the service  
> and a
> service browser on the same machine.
> But if no ip-address is assigned to the network adapter(s) the service
> browser doesn't find the published service.
>
> Is there any possibility to find the service in this case? Must the
> service be published in a special way?

Unfortunately this is a limitation of Avahi at the moment.. in theory  
we could support lookup on the loopback adapter but that presents a  
few issues specifically you will always see duplicate services (same  
services on 2 interfaces) for local and ethernet.. which can be  
confusing

At the moment this behavior has not been changed.. in theory we can  
change it though.

Trent