Lennart Poettering wrote: > This is all probably due to limited maximum DNS-SD service name > length. DNS-SD enforces a maxium service name length of 63 UTF-8 > characters. If the name returned by the HW driver is overly long this > results in an invalid string that Avahi refuses the accept. > > The fix is easy: just truncate/ellipsize the hw driver name so that the total > size never grows larger than 63 characters. Confirming that truncating solves the problem. However, I've done this just before the call to avahi_entry_group_add_service_strlst() in publish_service(). This is probably wrong for many reasons. Furthermore, I've done it using plain old strncpy() which knows nothing about unicode... > I updated the bug accordingly an will fix this in PA > eventually. (Unless -- of course -- someone else supplies me with a > patch for this.) Any chance you could point me where I should be doing these changes? One last thing, it'd be nice if the avahi doxygen docs included the 63-character limit here [1] Thanks for your help :) R?mi [1] http://avahi.org/download/doxygen/publish_8h.html#cb05a7d3d23a3b825ca77cb1c7d00ce4
