On Sun, 12.02.06 01:39, Max Kutny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi!
> What's the rationale behind skipping POINTOPOINT interfaces? Could it > be possible to make avahi more VPN friendly? This is slowly becoming an FAQ. There are actually two reasons: Firstly, mDNS is designed for low latency links such as ethernet or WLAN. Some timing limitations make mDNS unreliable across long latency links, such as modem or VPN. (latency must not exceed more than a few 10ms) For high latency links we suggest using DNS-SD over traditional unicast DNS (aka "wide area bonjour"). Unfortunately, as of now Avahi supports Wide-Area-DNS-SD in a read-only fashion only. Secondly, mDNS is designed to be used in "trusted" networks only. There is a big chance that interfaces with the POINTOPOINT bit set are directed to the internet (PPP of some kind), hence we try to avoid them like the devil the holy water. If you're feeling lucky you can enable mDNS over pointopoint links by commenting the line containing "IFF_POINTOPOINT" in avahi-core/iface-linux.c and recompiling. YMMV! (We might even make this a user configurable option eventually, since so many people ask for it.) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; http://0pointer.net/lennart/ _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
