From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Thiele Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 14:17:45 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] mdns/avahi troubles In-Reply-To: <56615349.9000801@green-communications.fr> (Nicolas Cavallari's message of "Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:48:09 +0100") References: <871tb3gt9u.fsf@karme.de> <56615349.9000801@green-communications.fr> Message-ID: <87610eqrnq.fsf@karme.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Nicolas Cavallari writes: > On 03/12/2015 21:40, Jens Thiele wrote: >> Hi, >> >> sometimes (when the wlan stick was idle for some time?) I see no answers >> to mdns requests => mdns lookup fails. >> >> Can't provide a lot of detail yet, but maybe this is a old known bug >> already fixed? > > This is most likely a problem with Avahi; Its latest release is 3 year > old and it has many known issues. At least one of them can cause it > to not publish DNS records so it will not answer queries for them, and > it is still not fixed in Avahi's Git yet. > > If a packet dump on godlady does not show replies, then Avahi didn't > reply and ath9k is not to blame. with a different stick (Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter) it seems to work just fine => imho unlikely avahi's fault here regarding the traffic dump i was very unclear: the dump is from the requesting host, and yes i also should also take a dump on the host that is supposed to answer jens PS: i have seen similar problems with other sticks - often a workaround was to disable power saving -- Prisirah - Building digital photo frames for family and friends using open-source hardware. http://karme.de/prisirah/