[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#657553: avahi-daemon losing addresses

[Geoff Clements]

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.6.30-6
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

* What led up to the situation?

After a short time all .local addresses are lost

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
  ineffective)?

Running "getent hosts whatever.local" returns the correct 
address soon after avahi-daemon is restarted. However
after a minute or two all .local addresses are no longer
resolved.

Another PC on my network running Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS 
(Lucid Lynx) continues to perform as expected hence 
making my Debian Testing box suspect.

There's nothing in the logs that I can see that suggests
that avahi is flushing its cache.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser            3.113
ii  bind9-host [host]  1:9.7.3.dfsg-1+b1
ii  dbus               1.4.16-1
ii  libavahi-common3   0.6.30-6
ii  libavahi-core7     0.6.30-6
ii  libc6              2.13-24
ii  libcap2            1:2.22-1
ii  libdaemon0         0.14-2
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.16-1
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7.2
ii  lsb-base           3.2-28

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns  0.10-3.2

Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd  0.6.30-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf changed:
[server]
use-ipv4=yes
use-ipv6=no
ratelimit-interval-usec=1000000
ratelimit-burst=1000
[wide-area]
enable-wide-area=yes
[publish]
[reflector]
[rlimits]
rlimit-core=0
rlimit-data=4194304
rlimit-fsize=0
rlimit-nofile=768
rlimit-stack=4194304
rlimit-nproc=3

/etc/default/avahi-daemon changed:
AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0


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