Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1555 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, 2009-07-01 at 18:29 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wondering if anyone has figured out how to allow avahi to work
> properly while running a firewall. I have tried enabling MDNS/MDNS
> Responder ports and various other ports - that does not seem to be
> working. MDNS on top of that uses a strange broadcast address of
> 224.0.0.251. That may also be comlicating things further.

My guess is that it depends on the service you want to use, which in your 
case I think it was finding printers. I'm doubtful it needs avahi, but in 
any case, I would simply look at packets intercepted by the firewall, or 
use tools like "iptraf" to find the connections.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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