On Tue, 26.05.09 12:12, Florian Erfurth ([email protected]) wrote:

> 
> Florian Erfurth schrieb:
> > And seldom such bad thing happens (which must not happen :( ):
> > (Resolver) Failed to resolve service 'Floh' of type '_boxMySQL._tcp' in
> > domain 'local': Timeout reached
> >   
> Hi, I found out, after timeout avahi tells me the host does have such 
> address like "169.254.9.181" which is wrong (true: "192.168.0.120"). 
> Where the hell does avahi get such address? And why does it happen?

That's an IPv4LL address. It gets assigned by avahi-autoipd or a
similar tool. Most modern systems use it as fallback when no manual
configuration and no DHCP is available.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering                        Red Hat, Inc.
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