[Tim Retout] > Hm, your client machine needs libnss-mdns, and avahi-daemon needs to > be running on the freedombox...
This is all in place already. > if the daemon stops responding, the address will no longer work. It > would be worth checking the logs, perhaps? These are all avahi and rsyslog related messages since the last boot. Do not see anything obvious there, I must admit. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="7.4.8" x-pid="1393" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 102) and group 'avahi' (GID 105). Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully called chroot(). Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Network interface enumeration completed. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering new address record for fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f on eth0.*. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.215 on eth0.IPv4. Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'. Mar 20 10:12:20 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Server startup complete. Host name is freedombox.local. Local service cookie is 4070818272. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 102) and group 'avahi' (GID 105). Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully called chroot(). Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Network interface enumeration completed. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering new address record for fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f on eth0.*. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.215 on eth0.IPv4. Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'. Mar 20 10:35:07 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Server startup complete. Host name is freedombox.local. Local service cookie is 369024271. root@freedombox:~# > Hope that helps, Absolutely. :) -- Happy hacking PEtter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss