Avahi can't find any outside services

[Markus Thielmann]

I'm running Ubuntu Edgy (Linux kellerbar 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux) with avahi 0.6.13.

The box is running in a network with two mt-daapd servers, a Ubuntu Edgy Rhythmbox/Avahi Box and a few iTunes Windows computers.

The problem: Every computer can see every share. Every computer can even see the rythmbox shares of the mentioned Edgy computer. But the box itself can't see any of the other shares.

It looks like this:

vdst@kellerbar:~$ sudo avahi-daemon --debug
Found user 'avahi' (UID 106) and group 'avahi' (GID 112).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
chroot.c: chroot() helper started
avahi-daemon 0.6.13 starting up.
Successfully called chroot().
Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
chroot.c: chroot() helper got command 02
No service found in /etc/avahi/services.
New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.10.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Registering new address record for 192.168.0.10 on eth0.
Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Server startup complete. Host name is kellerbar.local. Local service cookie is 2756209346.

vdst@kellerbar:~$ avahi-browse -av
Server version: avahi 0.6.13; Host name: kellerbar.local
E Ifce Prot Name Type Domain
+ eth0 IPv4 kellerbar [00:40:95:10:1f:37] Workstation local
: Cache exhausted
: All for now

Installed packages:
vdst@kellerbar:~$ dpkg -l | grep avahi
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii avahi-discover 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Service discover user interface for avahi
ii avahi-dnsconfd 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi DNS configuration tool
ii avahi-utils 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery uti
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common-data 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi common data files
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-compat-howl0 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi Howl compatibility library
ii libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi Apple Bonjour compatibility library
ii libavahi-core4 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD library
ii libavahi-glib1 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Avahi glib integration library
ii libavahi1.0-cil 0.6.11-1 CLI bindings for Avahi
ii python-avahi 0.6.13-2ubuntu2.2 Python utility package for Avahi

vdst@kellerbar:~$ dpkg -l | grep mdns
ii libnss-mdns 0.7-1ubuntu1 NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution
ii mdns-scan 0.4-1 Scan for mDNS/DNS-SD services published on t

I'm even able to scan the network for the required ports and I can telnet them (so no firewall problem)

vdst@kellerbar:~$ nmap -p 3689 192.168.0.1-255

Starting Nmap 4.10 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-12-10 17:36 CET

[...]

Interesting ports on 192.168.0.100:
PORT STATE SERVICE
3689/tcp open rendezvous

[...]

Nmap finished: 255 IP addresses (8 hosts up) scanned in 25.534 seconds

vdst@kellerbar:~$ telnet 192.168.0.100 3689
Trying 192.168.0.100...
Connected to 192.168.0.100.
Escape character is '^]'.

As it works on my other ubuntu box, I've got no idea how to get it to work. Any ideas?

[Trent Lloyd (lathiat)]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for your bug report, but it is in fact a duplicate.

This is a known issue and we expect to have a fix out shortly.