fedora 10 avahi & firewall weirdness

[Peter Robinson]

> I hope someone can clearify this for me.
>
> I have avahi activated on my desktop and wanted to discover services
> from my notebook (e.g. conduit). Both avahi servers use the default
> configuration (local domain).
> Running avahi-discover from my notebook worked with activated firewall
> on the host.
> On the host itself _no_ services were discovered while the fw was
> activated - deactivating fixed it.
> Why that? A normal fw configuration (my fw runs fedora default config)
> should not deny any packets from the inside, that are accepted from the
> outside. But obviously it does.
>
> any thoughts?

I think Fedora 9 firewall would allow avahi discovery packets through
by default, Fedora 10 doesn't. You'd need to add the appropriate rules
back to allow the avahi traffic through.

Peter