running avahi-daemon blocks ourtunes clients from connecting to iTunes clients

[anonymous]

Steps: 1. Find a network with lots of iTunes shares 2. Run avahi-daemon w/ rhythmbox to make an iTunes share on the network 3. Open ourtunes on any computer on the network

What happens: Only the avahi client will show on ourtunes. If you stop the avahi-daemon, you can view the regular iTunes shares.

[lennart]

Do you run that "ourtunes" app on Linux or on MacOSX?

Could you supply us with a packet dump of the mDNS traffic when this happens? (udp port 5353)

What clients are shown when you browse the shares with avahi-browse?

Why do you think it is Avahi that is broken? Do the Apple clients show all shares? To me, this looks like an error in the mDNS stack used by "ourtunes", which seams to be something implemented in native Java. Have you run "ourtunes" on the same machine as the Avahi daemon? It's not a good idea to run more than one mDNS stack on the same host. In fact Avahi has a "disallow-other-stacks" option which is enabled by default. If so other locally running stacks will be unable to bind to the mDNS port and join the mDNS multicast group. Is it possible that you have been running ourTunes on the same machine and the tool wasn't even able to bind to the local mDNS port?

[lennart]

Hmm, this bug report has been made anonymously, hence we cannot contact the author for more information about his issue. If the reporter doesn't respond within a week I will close this bug. (this doesn't look like an Avahi bug to me anyway...)

[lennart]

The reporter didn't respond in a week, hence I am closing this bug now. Dear reporter, feel free to reopen it, if you should ever reappear.