Hi Lennart, Thanks for the reply. It does seem to be a firewall issue... opening up udp 5353 appears to have solved it.
Best, Scott On 20-Nov-07, at 12:34 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 06.11.07 10:08, Scott Amort ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using avahi-daemon to advertise a netatalk share from a linux >> box >> (the client's are all macs running OS X 10.4.10 or 10.5). Everything >> works perfectly for about three to four minutes before the avahi >> broadcast disappears (i.e. I can still connect directly to the linux >> box via it's ip address, so netatalk is running fine, but the server >> no longer shows up in the network list). If I restart the avahi- >> daemon, it comes back and works as expected, but eventually >> disappears >> again. Has anyone else experienced this sort of behaviour? I'm >> running avahi 0.6.2 on a gentoo box. > > Sounds like an issue with multicasting. When the Avahi daemon starts > up it multicasts information of its services to all machines on the > LAN. However, when they are removed from the client's caches, they > seem not to be refreshed anymore. This is most likely the case because > Avahi seems not to be able to receive Multicast traffic, but is able > to send it out. > > Reasons might be manifold: > > - Firewall > - Broken network driver that cannot do Multicasting (Many WLAN > drivers, NDIS wrappers cannot do this) > - Broken routers/APs > > See FAQ #15. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
