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zoqaeski

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From: /earth/australia/.

Registered: 2009-09-30

Posts: 133

[SOLVED] Avahi mDNS host timeout

I’m at my parents place over Christmas, and they’ve got a lot of devices talking to each other using Avahi/Zeroconf. Avahi starts fine on my laptop, but for some reason the mDNS hostname resolution fails every time. There are no error messages from Avahi, and I can search for, say, HPPrinterModel.local and I can find it. But my own laptop doesn’t show up and just times out; searching by IP or hostname results in a timeout.

I’ve tried opening the required ports on the firewall (5353, 5354,?), I’ve tried reading through everything I can find (the wiki, Google, bug reports, etc), and yet I can’t seem to solve this. Has anyone else had problems like this?

EDIT: Avahi wasn’t configured correctly, and wasn’t publishing enough information. I’d turned it all off to stop my computer announcing itself to the world on public networks.

Last edited by zoqaeski (2013-12-25 16:57:30)