Routing Apple Bonjour?

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 11:29 AM

Hi jimp,

also now my Apple Remote app on my iPhone is not working anymore. The curious thing I see in the firewall logs when I open the app is that multicast packets from ng0(WAN) to LAN get blocked. But why is that? What has WAN to do with this? My iPhone is on OPT(WLAN) and my iMac is on LAN….

Thx

jimp · Apr 1, 2010, 11:53 AM

For kicks and grins, go to the Avahi settings, and then save twice there.

Then go to the system logs and copy/paste the startup messages from Avahi here, you can sanitize the external IPs if any are shown.

There is an odd packages bug we're trying to track down that causes some packages to behave erratically until they are saved twice, and I'm wondering if Avahi has a latent problem in that regard.

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 12:04 PM

Hey jimp,

done. Here is the log:

Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vr0.IPv4 with address 10.0.100.254.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: New relevant interface vr0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:54a8 on ng0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for xxxx on ng0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for fe80::280:48ff:fe62:fa57 on ath0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for 10.0.250.254 on ath0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:54a8 on vr0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering new address record for 10.0.100.254 on vr0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:35 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I386'/'FREEBSD'.
Apr 1 14:00:36 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Server startup complete. Host name is voldemort.hogwarts.local. Local service cookie is 1070838840.
Apr 1 14:00:37 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Service "voldemort" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Apr 1 14:00:37 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on voldemort" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.
Apr 1 14:00:39 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
Apr 1 14:00:39 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface ng0.IPv4 with address xxxx.
Apr 1 14:00:39 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface ath0.IPv4 with address 10.0.250.254.
Apr 1 14:00:39 	avahi-daemon[29798]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface vr0.IPv4 with address 10.0.100.254.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 1003) and group 'avahi' (GID 1003).
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: avahi-daemon 0.6.24 starting up.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Loading service file /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface ng0.IPv4 with address xxxx.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: New relevant interface ng0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface ath0.IPv4 with address 10.0.250.254.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: New relevant interface ath0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface vr0.IPv4 with address 10.0.100.254.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: New relevant interface vr0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:54a8 on ng0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for xxxx on ng0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for fe80::280:48ff:fe62:fa57 on ath0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for 10.0.250.254 on ath0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for fe80::20d:b9ff:fe13:54a8 on vr0.*.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering new address record for 10.0.100.254 on vr0.IPv4.
Apr 1 14:00:44 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Registering HINFO record with values 'I386'/'FREEBSD'.
Apr 1 14:00:45 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Server startup complete. Host name is voldemort.hogwarts.local. Local service cookie is 2044989570.
Apr 1 14:00:46 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Service "voldemort" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service) successfully established.
Apr 1 14:00:46 	avahi-daemon[29907]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on voldemort" (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.

jimp · Apr 1, 2010, 12:09 PM

Huh. Usually WAN is excluded from being used for Avahi becuase you almost ever want that to be used.

Can you try to reselect the Deny interface in your settings, and be sure that WAN is really highlighted?
I thought I put some code in there to catch the PPPoE case, but it's been so long since I touched it, I can't remember.

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 12:14 PM

Okay. Did that. Now ng0 is not mentioned in the avahi logs anymore…
I will check my iPhone app when I get home and then I can tell you if it is working again.

Thanks

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 6:00 PM

Nope. It does not work anymore. I also told iTunes to forget all remotes. I can finely add my iPhone and enter the code number given by the iPhone and then I should be able to control iTunes but the app keeps spinning and nothing happens…

The blocked logs show nothing...

Besides everything from WLAN to LAN and vice versa is allowed...

jimp · Apr 1, 2010, 6:02 PM

Was there a recent update to either iTunes or your iPhone?

I wonder if there has been an update to Avahi either recently. I may need to compile a new version.

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 6:04 PM

Well iPhone OS 3.1.3 is out awhile and I do not know if I used it since the update. iTunes was also update, but that was yesterday…

jimp · Apr 1, 2010, 6:46 PM

I looked and there hasn't been a new version of Avahi in quite some time. I just wonder if Apple adjusted the protocol behavior in some way that is triggering this.

jlepthien · Apr 1, 2010, 6:59 PM

The weird thing is that the sync with Things.app is still working and that is using bonjour as well AFAIK…

jlepthien · Apr 6, 2010, 11:21 AM

Any other idea? Is nobody using this kind of configuration?

jlepthien · Apr 7, 2010, 9:59 AM

Yep. Me, too…

jimp · Apr 8, 2010, 1:50 AM

not sure why this thread is suddenly a target for spammers. That's the second blatant spam post I've had to remove from the thread today…

Links about DVD box sets are not relevant to pfSense :-)

iFloris · Apr 18, 2010, 9:23 PM

I've been seeing the same 'invalid query packet' errors. In addition, it seems to be unable to actually register itself:

avahi-daemon[40465]: Failed to add service 'SFTP File Transfer on firebox1' of type '_sftp-ssh._tcp', ignoring service group (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service): Not supported
avahi-daemon[40465]: Failed to add service 'SFTP File Transfer on firebox1' of type '_sftp-ssh._tcp', ignoring service group (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/sftp-ssh.service): Not supported
avahi-daemon[40465]: Failed to add service 'firebox1' of type '_ssh._tcp', ignoring service group (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service): Not supported
avahi-daemon[40465]: Failed to add service 'firebox1' of type '_ssh._tcp', ignoring service group (/usr/local/etc/avahi/services/ssh.service): Not supported

Which means that though avahi is running, it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

jimp · Apr 18, 2010, 9:42 PM

The ssh/sftp errors are normal and do not indicate an actual failure, they just mean that those particular services aren't registered.

I see them all the time and my sessions are (still) running fine.

iFloris · Apr 19, 2010, 7:15 AM

Thanks, I did not know that.

So how do I know if avahi is working?
My pptp sessions don't seem to allow bonjour and neither does openvpn.

Could it be that avahi is having difficulty with my time capsule and airport base stations and that a conflict is causing the invalid packet errors?

Perhaps jlepthien can tell us if he too has bonjour routing devices on his network?

jlepthien · Apr 19, 2010, 7:17 AM

I am just using avahi between my WLAN and LAN interfaces. I can test if avahi is working via PPTP when I get home to my box…

jimp · Apr 19, 2010, 11:32 AM

iFloris, is your OpenVPN connection happening between routers, or is the client end an actual Mac?

I have only made it work by running it router-to-router, I don't think it works if it's only running on the server side. Perhaps if you can run Avahi locally on the Mac somehow it may work?

iFloris · Apr 20, 2010, 12:17 PM

Yes, my connection is from a MacBook Pro using Viscosity(http://www.viscosityvpn.com) to a firebox (x500) running pfsense (1.2.3-RELEASE).
I'm not sure how I would go about running avahi on the mac.
Every mac already has mDNS[responder] built in, which I believe is what Avahi is based on.

On the avahi ports page for osx is stated that: "This kind of technology is already found in Mac OS X (branded Rendezvous, Bonjour and sometimes Zeroconf) and is very convenient. Avahi is mainly based on Lennart Poettering's flexmdns mDNS implementation for Linux which has been discontinued in favour of Avahi." (http://avahi.darwinports.com/)

What are the chances of avahi conflicting with mdns on this macbook pro?

jimp · Apr 26, 2010, 1:46 PM

I don't have a Mac so I can't say for sure. I did remember that someone else tried to do this before on a Mac with Viscosity but I don't think they were able to get it to work.

Since this has strayed quite a bit from the original topic, you should start a new thread if you want to pursue that topic.