[Cerowrt-devel] Strange behavior with macbook and DNS

[Jim Gettys]

On 10/24/2012 08:06 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> I think something is up with the Avahi reflector, but haven't had
>     >> time to look into it.
>
>     DT> This is an issue with avahi's mdns tying names to mac addresses,
>     DT> and this being a routed, rather than bridged, network. It's
>     DT> actually a flaw in mdns's design which I hope will be worked on
>     DT> in the new dnsext working group at the ietf.
>
> So, basically, each time the mac goes from wired to wireless, the
> reflector sees the name, says, "hey, that name is in use over *THERE*",
> and declares a conflict.
>
> If tied to mac address, then I'd expect at most two names (one for the
> wired mac, one for the wireless mac), which is also suboptimal, but
> understandable.   SO I think you are saying that in addition to this
> protocol problem, there is also some bug in the reflector causing all
> previous names to be taken?
Dunno.  Kerry Lynn is probably in a better position to say.
>
> (I'm asking mostly so that I can make sure that mdnsext can capture this
> as part of the problem statement.  BTW: who will be in Atlanta?)
We have another problem to capture in mdnsext.

Multiple CeroWrt routers can mesh; so there can be loops, and mdns has
problems with that: it will forward things it's already heard.  I
observe Avahi in a hard loop (and probably flooding the network with
lots of messages).

So Avahi basically loops in that case forwarding announcements and
generating names.

Kerry and I got together a few weeks back and discussed this. I don't
know if he's had time to set up some routers to test and diagnose
exactly what is happening yet or not (I suspect not, that he's probably
been busy with the startup of the working group).

So this is a concrete example of the problems homenet faces with
multiple routers in the home.  Naive people (like my family) want their
printer discovery to "just work".
                        - Jim


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