mdnsd not running

[dirtsandwich]

I'm running 5.2 amd 64. I'm having an issue browsing local file shares.

When I initially open Dolphin and go to a network share it will saying that it can't open the share - probably because of a firewall, or it will just say timeout on server. Sometimes it will give me the message 'The Zeroconf daemon (mdnsd) is not running'. After 3-4 minutes I can browse network shares normally but it will happen again if I don't browse a network share for a couple hours.

In searching around it looks like the issue is something to do with Avahi, but I'm not sure what exactly.



Thanks in advance!

[Fitzcarraldo]

Strange. mdnsd is the mDNSResponder daemon, and mDNSResponder was made obsolete by Avahi (see my post Re: stabalizing 3.4f (known Issues and Fixes) back in 2007), so I wouldn't expect mdnsd to be running, and it isn't in my case:

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# locate mdnsd
/usr/portage/net-misc/mDNSResponder/files/mdnsd.init.d
# rc-update show -v | grep mdnsd
#

I think this might be either a Samba bug or a Samba configuration problem on your particular PC as I have never experienced what you are seeing. I don't have a Samba share browsing problem, but you could launch the Avahi daemon to see if it helps you. You can check if it's running already as follows:

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# ls /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon

^Shows the daemon's init script is present on my laptop.

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# rc-update show -v | grep avahi
         avahi-daemon |                                               
       avahi-dnsconfd |

^Shows the daemon is not running on my laptop.

To run it now, enter the following command as root user in a Konsole/Terminal window:

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/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

If that gets rid of your problem, to make your PC launch the daemon automatically every time you boot do the following as root user:

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rc-update add avahi-daemon default

[dirtsandwich]

Thanks for the reply Fitzcarraldo, but it didn't fix the problem.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Aha! avahi-daemon is only half the story. Also run the Avahi DNS config daemon:

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# /etc/init.d/avahi-dnsconfd start

If that works with the other daemon also running, add them both to the default run level.