Hi Willems, For detecting this case I think you want to leave the ServiceResolver running. Do you get a new hit on the ServiceResolver if you leave it running?
Trent Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Feb 2021, at 4:08 pm, Willems Gert (GWI) <gert.will...@niko.eu> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm new to the mailing list and have been digging around in the code of avahi > for the last couple of days to figure out how it would be possible that the > server would post a AVAHI_BROWSER_NEW event when an IP address change has > been detected. > I work in Niko, which is a Belgian company that mainly focusses on domotica > applications. > We use avahi in our product to detect what the devices are on the network. We > use the client resolve_callback function in order to do this and this works > find however we do have a problem that we don't get a trigger when there is > an IP address change because of a reboot of the DHCP server or some other > reason. Because of this we lose connection with our devices and other then a > full reboot there is no way of solving that. > I've been concentrating on the 0.7 release since that is the one that we are > using. I've found out that the avahi cache does detect a change of IP address > and that it even cleans up the old address. So it was a bit surprising to see > that this doesn't lead to an event towards the client (like an > AVAHI_BROWSER_NEW). As far as I can tell only new PTR records seem to lead to > an actual event that triggers the client. So my question is, if I would like > to create a custom version where address changes do lead to AVAHI_BROWER_NEW > events, how would be the best way to go about and do this? > > regards, > Gert Willems > _______________________________________________ > avahi mailing list > avahi@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
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