fedora 10 avahi & firewall weirdness

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 00:58 +0100, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > mDNS uses a "push" architecture, not a "pull" architecture. Systems
> > broadcast service availability instead of being polled for it. So when
> > you query your local mDNS resolver, it checks to see if any services
> > have been pushed for a given host/service. A non-firewalled system will
> > see all pushes; a firewalled system will see none.
> 
> Ok, that explains, why my non firewalled notebook saw all services, but
> why did I not see any localhost services? A push from localhgost should
> not be firewalled!

Ah, but you see, the push isn't to localhost, it's to the broadcast
address, which *is* firewalled.

As to why avahi doesn't just enumerate them internally... that I don't
know.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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