avahi slow to start - can ping IP, but hostname comes online after few mintues

Question

I've a strange problem.

On ubuntu server 11. I've avahi running.

When I restart machine, in about 1 min server is up, I can connect through SSH or ping it via IP. But not via hostname server.local - it takes about 3-4 minutes for server.local to become accessible. That's allot!

I installed avahi to handle hostname. I believe there is something wrong with startup procedure and it gets delayed or smth. How should I diagnose the problem? or is there way to configure avahi to be more responsive?

p.s. I also noticed few times, hostname was accessible but not IP. Which makes me believe there is something really wrong going on.

THANKS!

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 12 '12 at 15:36

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I fixed problem by disabling ipv6 in avahi settings file. It was in /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf

edited Feb 12 '12 at 15:36

Jorge Castro

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answered Oct 27 '11 at 10:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '13 at 07:36

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try to edit /etc/nsswitch.conf

I had the same issue, and i disabled mdns, so if you have:

hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

try to replace with:

hosts:      files dns

answered May 10 '13 at 07:36

molnarg

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avahi slow to start - can ping IP, but hostname comes online after few mintues

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