Can you attach a pcap file showing the relevant packets?

- Trent

> On 26 Sep 2019, at 6:46 am, Sharath Naeni <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> We have a local network of 50 nodes which are publishing on avahi(with no 
> flags, AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC). We have noticed that 
> avahi-daemon is using (>100%) CPU and goes into bad state. (avahi-browse 
> complains "Daemon connection timedout")
> 
> So we did a tcpdump of packets received by a node and observed that each node 
> in addition to publishing PTR record with it's own service, also publishing 
> SRV record with details of other 49 nodes. This increased the avahi traffic 
> in the network and we think that heavy traffic is causing avahi-daemon to go 
> into bad state.
> 
> We would like to understand why:
> 1. Avahi-daemon is publishing SRV records and is there any way to disable 
> this functionality.
> 2. From source code, we noticed that avahi-daemon does process SRV records 
> and hence too many SRV records in the network is causing avahi-daemon hung. 
> Is our hypothesis correct?
> 
> Version (avahi-daemon 0.6.31)
> publish-aaaa-on-ipv4=no
> publish-a-on-ipv6=no
> [reflector]
> enable-reflector=no
> reflect-ipv=no
> 
> Thanks in advance. Any insights would be great help to us.
> 
> Regards.
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