On 2/12/06, Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.) >
what about doing something like the relaying gateways that i suggested to fill the need for zeroconf with vpn? Would it work? they wouldn't forward the query, but exchange the browsing list on a regular basis (or something equivalent) what are your opinions? > 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 > -- Sebastien Estienne
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