[avahi] Eth0 2 IP's - resolves to 169 series IP and not to DHCP IP

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 09.03.11 00:38, Harikrishna Donti (Harikrishna.Donti at Lntemsys.com) wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have avahi installed on an ARM based board. I have my eth0 configured to
> DHCP and eth0 also has an Alias IP "169.254.1.100". The idea behind having
> an alias IP was an installer can always connect an Ethernet cable between
> his laptop and board and talk to board.
> 
> When I start avahi, it logs messages .........
> avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting up
> WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
> Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/MY.service
> Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address
> 169.254.1.200.
> New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS
> Network interface enumeration completed.
> Registering new address record for 169.254.1.200 on eth0.IPv4.
> Registering new address record for 10.113.25.45 on eth0.IPv4

Hmm, how come one line has a final fulls top on it, and the other does not?

> Server startup complete. Host name is MY0008F80201CE.local. Local service
> cookie is 2388707700
> 
> 
> When I try to discover the board, the host name most of the times resolves
> to 169.254.1.200 and not to the dhcp IP ( 10.112.25.45). I would like to
> discover or resolve to DHCP IP or both IP's. How can I achieve this? Is
> there any configuration not to discover 169.* IP's?

Uh, this is weird. Normally avahi should just pick a single address per
interface, and it should be the most "global" one.

Is this on Linux?

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.