Hi Sunararaj, On 30/01/2009, at 1:25 AM, sundararaj reel wrote:
> Hi all, > > Very seldom avahi-browse returns ipv6 address instead of IPv4 > address. Why does this happen ? Avahi returns whichever IP it happens upon first. > > > $ avahi-browse -t -r -l _reelboxAVG._tcp > [...] > = eth1 IPv4 RBServer > _reelboxAVG._tcp local > hostname = [RBServer.local] > address = [fe80::2e0:f4ff:fe17:b2f3] > port = [2001] > txt = [] > [...] > > How can this behaviour be disabled ? Setting use-ipv6=no in /etc/ > avahi/avahi-daemon.conf ? Yes, this should "resolve" the issue. Note that if your application only supports ipv4 .. your -application- can request to publish on v4 only. (and browse on v4 only) without disabling v6 system wide. Regards, Trent _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
