mt-daapd doesn’t announce itself here…

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  • #29
    CCRDude
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    Have the same problem on two machines (moving my music from an old Mandrake to a new RedHat server):
    mt-daapd says it’s mDNS server is running (the Stop link in the web interface doesn’t work even), but it doesn’t show up in any iTunes. On the old machine, I had daapd before, and just used mDNSResponderPosix to successfully announce mt-daapd.

    On the new machine, I installed Howl, and can use mDNSPublish “My Jukebox” _daap._tcp 3689 & to announce… but since mt-daapd is supposed to do that as well, I wonder what’s wrong here. Rendezvous works in general, as mDNSResponderPosix and mDNSPublish (Howl) show, but not in mt-daapd 🙁

    #3150
    CCRDude
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    Update: I couldn’t imagine any conflicts as I have no other multicastdns apps, but since Howl itself worked, I did re-configure mt-daapd to use howl instead, and now it announces properly.

    #3151
    rpedde
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    It’s possible that if those were running, mt-daapd refused to start the rendezvous service. The version of apple’s mdns responder that’s bundled with mt-daapd (58.8) tries to open the multicast socket in a manner that requires exclusive access.

    Also, 0.2.1.1 has a known issue on amd64, if that’s what you are running.

    The howl solution is the “right” solution anyway… In fact, I think the next version isn’t going to include mdns stuff anyway, but require howl. (or a standalone mdns).

    An app that has a built-in mdns responder is just stupid. It doesn’t encourage the adoption of mDNS because all the built-in responders step on each other’s toes, and nothing works the way that rendezvous is supposed to.

    In a perfect world, all the distros would ship with Howl anyway.

    #3152
    CCRDude
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    Thanks for that info!

    Howl or the Apple one weren’t running on the new machine yet, and the status page showed that mt-daapds rendezvous (bonjour or what it is called now) was actually running, but it’s a 64 bit processor (Xeon, even though I would have preferred an AMD as well 😉 ) on 64 bit Linux.

    Glad to know I hear the right solution by accident :laugh:

    #3153
    rpedde
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    I don’t have a place for patches, but I’ll find a place to post the patch for 0.2.1.1 for 64 bit here soon.

    — Ron

    #3154
    rpedde
    Participant

    First step is to make sure your howl works. Forget about mt-daapd, and just get howl to advertise mt-daapd. If you can’t get that going, there is more fundamental problems at work.

    Edit your config file to advertise _daap._tcp on port 3689. See if that shows up in iTunes.

    Then, start mt-daapd with -m. That disables the built-in responder. Once that’s running, see if you can connect. (let it run a while to make sure the database is indexed).

    If you can’t get to this point, then it’s likely a firewall or other issue. So start there.

    — Ron

    #3155
    rpedde
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    Good to hear.

    Cheers

    — Ron

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