On Tue, 06.11.07 10:08, Scott Amort ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I am using avahi-daemon to advertise a netatalk share from a linux box > (the client's are all macs running OS X 10.4.10 or 10.5). Everything > works perfectly for about three to four minutes before the avahi > broadcast disappears (i.e. I can still connect directly to the linux > box via it's ip address, so netatalk is running fine, but the server > no longer shows up in the network list). If I restart the avahi- > daemon, it comes back and works as expected, but eventually disappears > again. Has anyone else experienced this sort of behaviour? I'm > running avahi 0.6.2 on a gentoo box.
Sounds like an issue with multicasting. When the Avahi daemon starts up it multicasts information of its services to all machines on the LAN. However, when they are removed from the client's caches, they seem not to be refreshed anymore. This is most likely the case because Avahi seems not to be able to receive Multicast traffic, but is able to send it out. Reasons might be manifold: - Firewall - Broken network driver that cannot do Multicasting (Many WLAN drivers, NDIS wrappers cannot do this) - Broken routers/APs See FAQ #15. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
