Avahi-daemon issue, regularly become stuck in "registering" status

[coolnodje]

I keep having hostname

Code:

freenas.local

become regularly unavailable.

All I can see is that when the issue arise, the

Code:

avahi-daemon

situation is in

Code:

registering

as in:

Code:

avahi-daemon: registering [freenas.local] (avahi-daemon)

I can restart the daemon, but it keeps being registering.
AFAICT only a full reboot fixes it.

I'm not 100% sure this is the cause but it seems to be the most likely.

Also I can never get

Code:

avahi-browse -a

to work, even when avahi-daemon is in

Code:

running

status.

I can trick computers looking for it using a line in

Code:

/etc/hosts

but some Samba shares refer to it as

Code:

freenas._smb._tcp.local

and I don't really understand how this works, but it cannot be tricked using local /etc/hosts.

 

[coolnodje]

Is anyone able to run `avahi-browse -a` on a freenas machine having avahi services running?

Is it supposed to work or is getting

Code:

Failed to create client object: Daemon not running

is just normal?
I was never able to get this working even though the Daemon IS running