Avahi finally as org "avahi" on GitHub!!

2023-12-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Congratulations for conquering the "avahi" organization name on GitHub. I have years ago tried to make this reality by trying to contact the "avahi" user who was occupying the name and never got an answer. How did you succeed to get hold on this name? Till On 16/12/2023 11:16, Petr Menšík

Re: FOSDEM meeting?

2023-12-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I will be at FOSDEM, on both days, arriving Fri, Feb 2 around noon and leaving on Monday afternoon, and I will give the talk Desktop Linux, as easy as a smartphone! Just in a Snap! in the Distributions devroom, on Sunday, 1:30 PM – 1:55 PM I will tell how the Snap packaging system an

Re: [avahi] Is systemd planning to fully replace avahi?

2022-10-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 12/10/2022 09:37, Lennart Poettering wrote: Do we want to keep avahi primary choice for mDNS? What are you opinions on replacing avahi with systemd-resolved? Yeah, this is definitely on my list. resolved already covers a lot of ground of mDNS/DNS-SD but there's quite some stuff missing still

Re: [avahi] Avahi mailing list open again!

2022-10-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
accumulated with all my frustration of such a central part of the OS not being properly maintained. I also tried to make some more people aware by mentioning this in my weekly report on the Ubuntu Discourse: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-updates-monday-29th-august-2022/30170/9?u=till

Re: [avahi] Avahi mailing list open again!

2022-10-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 11/10/2022 21:12, Petr Menšík wrote: On 10/11/22 20:57, Till Kamppeter wrote: Some weeks ago, I have seen this bug report from Adrian Cable on Avahi: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388 and this comment https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388#issuecomment-1196167125 where he

Re: [avahi] Avahi mailing list open again!

2022-10-11 Thread Till Kamppeter
Some weeks ago, I have seen this bug report from Adrian Cable on Avahi: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388 and this comment https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/388#issuecomment-1196167125 where he expresses that he wants to volunteer on maintaining work on Avahi. Note that I by m

[avahi] Bonjour/Avahi broadcasting with host names

2017-01-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, tl;dr: Local IPv6 IP address has an alternative host name assigned but Avahi broadcast uses the system's default host name. I am working on the ippusbxd project: https://github.com/tillkamppeter/ippusbxd/ ippusbxd makes an IPP-over-USB printer appear on the system like a network printer

[avahi] Broadcast IP address and no host name

2016-12-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I have a machine with several network interfaces (lo, dummy0, eth0, virbr0, ...). The dummy0 is set up like this: sudo modprobe dummy sudo ifconfig dummy0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 multicast Then ifconfig gives this: -- dummy0: flags=4291 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.1 ne

Re: [avahi] Advertizing a service only on the local machine

2016-12-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 12/13/2016 08:22 PM, jbagg wrote: I suspect you need to pass the ID of the local loopback network interface instead of AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC. From the avahi api doc..."interface: The interface this service shall be announced on. We recommend to pass AVAHI_IF_UNSPEC here, to announce on all interfac

[avahi] Advertizing a service only on the local machine

2016-12-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I am leading the OpenPrinting project and currently I am working on driverless (IPP Everywhere, AirPrint) printing. Driverless means that not driver is needed on the client. As driver we consider any kind of printer-model-specific software or data. Driverless printers advertise themselv

[avahi] Running avahi-daemon on-demand

2014-02-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
I am responsible for Ubuntu's printing stack and for Ubuntu Touch (the phone OS from Ubuntu) I would like to run the three daemons avahi-daemon, cupsd, and cups-browsed on-demend. cups-browsed is accessing avahi-daemon via the library functions avahi_glib_poll_new(), avahi_client_new(), avahi_

[avahi] Impact on battery life of avahi-daemon and Avahi clients

2012-11-23 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, In CUPS 1.6.x the CUPS broadcasting/browsing mechanism to let print queues on a server automatically appear on clients was removed, and instead, CUPS servers do broadcasting of their shared print queues only by Bonjour, but the CUPS damon dos no Bonjour browsing to let the server's queues

Re: [avahi] [PATCH] avahi-core: reserve space for record data when size estimate

2012-10-09 Thread Till Kamppeter
It made it into the Ubuntu Quantal release due in 10 days. Thank you very much! Till On 10/09/2012 06:29 AM, joeyli wrote: Hi Till, Thanks for your help to test my patch and happy it works to you for fix issue. Thanks a lot! Joey Lee ___ avah

Re: [avahi] [PATCH] avahi-core: reserve space for record data when size estimate

2012-10-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
The patched avahi is now uploaded into the Ubuntu archives. It is working great for me and I appreciate if it could get integrated in Avahi upstream. Till On 10/08/2012 11:09 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: Thank you very much for your patch! I had the same problem as you, but with CUPS

Re: [avahi] I would like to report a bug in Avahi

2012-10-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
Seems that I succeeded to fix the bug by applying the patch from http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-September/002188.html But anyway, I am grateful if the site could be fixed so that I can register and report bugs. Till On 10/08/2012 08:33 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote

Re: [avahi] [PATCH] avahi-core: reserve space for record data when size estimate

2012-10-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
Thank you very much for your patch! I had the same problem as you, but with CUPS registering its printer shares into Avahi (built-in from CUPS 1.6.x on). I have 18 queues and have always avahi-daemon spinning up and not working any more. I have applied it to the Ubuntu package of Avahi and th

[avahi] I would like to report a bug in Avahi

2012-10-08 Thread Till Kamppeter
[ Resending to the mailing list ] Hi, I am Till Kamppeter, leader of OpenPrinting (www.openprinting.org) and also responsible for the printing subsystem in Ubuntu. The printing system CUPS uses Avahi to broadcast information about shared printers using the Bonjour protocol. It uses this