On Wed, 24.05.06 20:41, Chris McHarg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This isn't strictly about Avahi, but I thought I'd give it a shot here > anyway... > > I've been working with Avahi on linux machines and using Apple's ie bonjour > plugin (on winxp) to browse the published http services. I noticed that > each page access would take relatively long time to return... around 3 secs. > > Looking at the packet dump, it seems that windows issues NBNS queries > (NetBIOS) for the Avahi published .local hostname, and spends a second or > two waiting for replies. > > The two ways I can think of to get around this is to either turn off NetBios > on the windows side, or maybe run nmbd on the linux side. However, I think > both options have problems... turning off NetBios disables windows work > group display, etc, and there'd have to be some sort of system for passing > the current published .local hostname to nmbd. > > Has anyone else got any ideas on this?
I thought NetBIOS queries are obsolete these days, even on Windows. Didn't they replace their own name lookup protocol with classic DNS? Consider asking the Apple/Bonjour guys about this issue, they'll probably know their software better than we do. 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
