The avahi-daemon seems to get stuck on the "registering" cycle. Thus, no avahi-related services appear in the Network browser, such as sftp or Samba shares on the local or remote machines.
Still present in avahi-0.6.22-11.fc9 (from Koji).
This has been seen in Ubuntu, and has a ticket on Avahi's Trac at http://avahi.org/ticket/201
I've managed to build packages for Avahi 0.6.23 by placing the upstream source into the 0.6.22 SRPM and dropping the VNC patches. This one seems to be working OK *so far* --- I've only tested it at home, I'll have to see later how it fares at my workplace network. Any chance of getting an official build into Koji?
Following my previous comment, Avahi 0.6.23 displays the same behaviour (stuck registering) at my workplace network. The differences between home and work are: - work's DHCP assigns a particular fixed address to my notebook, whereas home assigns the first free one; - home's dynamic DNS honours the hostname requested by the notebook, whereas at work the notebook's IP reverse-lookups to what the DHCP server thinks it should be. In either case, the machine's local hostname is still rhapsody. That's all I can think of right now.
Hmm... I find putting use-ipv6=yes in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf seems to make it transition to "running" more reliably. As far as I'm aware my workplace network doesn't deploy IPv6, but there are a number of IPv6 hosts showing up in avahi-discover.
(In reply to comment #0) > The avahi-daemon seems to get stuck on the "registering" cycle. Thus, no > avahi-related services appear in the Network browser, such as sftp or Samba > shares on the local or remote machines. Basil, have you tried enabling IPv6 to see if that works for you?
James, I'm not running Fedora 9 on my laptop anymore, and I'm on a completely different network topology now (I'm in a different hemisphere of the world to boot!). I'll see if I still have the problem, but I'm afraid it might be apples to oranges by this point.
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