I found a mailing list post which mentioned this, but no replies: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2010-March/001863.html
It actually causes problems for Pidgin in certain circumstances, see bug #1841621. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to avahi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1102906 Title: Cannot broadcast both on global and link address on same interface Status in Avahi: Unknown Status in avahi package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Avahi seems to be hardwired to not over any link-local addresses on an interface, if there also exists a global (non-link-local) address on the same interface. Unfortunately I have need for this feature. I patched the source accordingly myself, creating a new config option 'publish-local-always' to enable that behavior. It's actually I minimal change, and I would be pleased, if you could integrate it (or something similar). You can find my patch in the attachment below. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/avahi/+bug/1102906/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
