[avahi] running 2 instances of avahi

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 05.09.12 13:38, Troyanker, Vlad (vlad at lab126.com) wrote:

> I have a need to run avahi alongside running avahi-daemon. I have seen
> avahi printning a warning on startup when detecting non-exclusive use
> of its public port. However, it appears to work just fine (at least on
> ubuntu 11).  My question is are there any limitations or restrictions
> in running 2 or more instances of avahi?

Yes. It doesn't work for many messages, since unicast responses are
generally only delivered to one listening socket, not all of them.

Just don't do this. It's not supported. I added the message precisely to
tell people about this problem.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.