On 08/20/08 03:27, Yaniv Aknin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up an OpenSolaris snv90 box to be an mt-daapd (a protocol 
> relying on zeroconf/mDNS for lookup) server.
> 
> Due to some arcane reason, lookup from other hosts works only seconds after 
> the daemon has been started. Soon after, my Solaris host no longer publishes 
> itself on the mDNS network.
> 
> Blaming the daemon, I've tried truss-ing both the mt-daapd daemon and mdnsd, 
> seeing that neither was even receiving the mDNS lookup requests sent to 
> multicast group 224.0.0.251.
> 
> However, quite magically, when snoop is running, the packets arrive and 
> everything works. This behaviour occurs even when snoop isn't in promiscuous 
> mode (!).
> 
> My netstat -gn is (sorry for the poort formatting):
> Group Memberships: IPv4
> Interface Group                RefCnt
> --------- -------------------- ------
> lo0       224.0.0.1                 1
> myk1      224.0.0.251               2
> myk1      224.0.0.1                 1
> 
> and my netstat -rn is (sftpf):
> Routing Table: IPv4
>   Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref     Use     Interface 
> -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- --------- 
> default              192.168.1.1          UG        1        561           
> 192.168.1.0          192.168.1.253        U         1        514 myk1      
> 224.0.0.0            192.168.1.253        U         1          0 myk1      
> 127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1            UH        2         21 lo0       
> 
> Any further ideas on why could this happen / how to resolve it?

Just a [S]WAG (wild guess): any chance of trying this with a different 
NIC to rule out driver issues with multicast? e1000g or similar, maybe?

Steffen
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> 
> Thanks,
>  - Yaniv
>  
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