avahi not registering services with port number "0". added patch.

Rouven WEILER Rouven_Weiler at gmx.net
Tue Apr 2 11:54:52 UTC 2019


In avahi.c there are two mdns services registered under port number "0" for propagation. The two services for the fuit:model named "_device-info" and "_adisk" are not propagated properly under.

Digging on MacOS shows that "_adisk" uses e.g. port number 9 in the TimeCapsule. "_device-info" is not a service at all due to IANA. It is just a TXT entry. The mDNSResponder in MacOS does propagate that at startup. This function is not ported to other implementation. Setting "_device-info" being propagated on port 9 does then work well.

Summed up: Setting both port number to 9 make everything work well. Since "9" is the "discard" port (to my knowledge something like a network "/dev/null") and since there is no real service behind "_device-info" and "_adisk" setting the ports seem reasonable to me.

Additional info: https://www.illumos.org/issues/10577
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