[Freedombox-discuss] Avahi

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Tim Retout]
> Hm, your client machine needs libnss-mdns, and avahi-daemon needs to
> be running on the freedombox...

This is all in place already.

> if the daemon stops responding, the address will no longer work. It
> would be worth checking the logs, perhaps?

These are all avahi and rsyslog related messages since the last boot.
Do not see anything obvious there, I must admit.

Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="7.4.8" x-pid="1393" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 102) and group 'avahi' (GID 105).
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully called chroot().
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering new address record for fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f on eth0.*.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.215 on eth0.IPv4.
Mar 20 10:12:19 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Mar 20 10:12:20 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Server startup complete. Host name is freedombox.local. Local service cookie is 4070818272.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[1510]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 102) and group 'avahi' (GID 105).
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully called chroot().
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.122.215.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering new address record for fe80::5054:ff:fe0e:ac2f on eth0.*.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering new address record for 192.168.122.215 on eth0.IPv4.
Mar 20 10:35:06 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
Mar 20 10:35:07 freedombox avahi-daemon[2078]: Server startup complete. Host name is freedombox.local. Local service cookie is 369024271.
root at freedombox:~#

> Hope that helps,

Absolutely. :)

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Happy hacking
PEtter Reinholdtsen