Thanks for the explanation. Pidgin probably needs to keep the source address matching partly for security, and also possibly to disambiguate users. Binding to the advertised address probably wouldn't work in this case, as the target wouldn't have a route back for the global address prefix.
I guess it would have to enumerate all interfaces, then process each one at a time, retrieving the link local address and adding it to a new text record in the advertised service description. This also means monitoring for new and deleted interfaces with rtnetlink .. that's a pretty invasive change to the codebase. At the very least, if Pidgin could raise a visible error with a pointer to an FAQ when this happens, that would be a start! Would it be possible to add a flag to AvahiPublishFlags to allow the application to request the required behaviour on a per-service basis? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1841621 Title: Bonjour messages not received if one party has global ipv6 address and one doesn't To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1841621/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
