[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#412256: avahi-daemon: fails to browse huge LANs

[Benoît Dejean]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.16-2
Severity: normal

Hello,
i am currently in a big LANs : more than 200 players on a single network.
Avahi fails to browse this LAN. Here is /var/log/daemon.log:

Feb 24 21:29:21 localhost avahi-daemon[1686]: accept(): Too many open files
Feb 24 21:29:44 localhost last message repeated 104263 times

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1-ben
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.16-2     Avahi common library
ii  libavahi-core4              0.6.16-2     Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdaemon0                  0.10-1       lightweight C library for daemons
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.8-3.4   XML parsing C library - runtime li

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns                   0.9-0.1    NSS module for Multicast DNS name 

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