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Old 02-24-2011
Mandriva: 2011:037: avahi
LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in avahi: avahi-core/socket.c in avahi-daemon in Avahi before 0.6.29 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an empty (1) IPv4 or (2) IPv6 UDP packet to port 5353. NOTE: this [More...]

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avahi-dnsconfd

avahi-dnsconfd(8)					      System Manager's Manual						 avahi-dnsconfd(8)

NAME

       avahi-dnsconfd - Unicast DNS server from mDNS/DNS-SD configuration daemon

SYNOPSIS

       avahi-dnsconfd [options]

       avahi-dnsconfd --kill

       avahi-dnsconfd --refresh

       avahi-dnsconfd --check

DESCRIPTION

       avahi-dnsconfd  connects  to  a	running  avahi-daemon  and  runs the script /etc/avahi/dnsconfd.action for each unicast DNS server that is
       announced on the local LAN. This is useful for configuring unicast DNS servers in a DHCP-like fashion with mDNS.

OPTIONS

       -D | --daemonize
	      Daemonize after startup and redirect log messages to syslog.

       -s | --syslog
	      Log to syslog instead of STDERR. Implied by --daemonize.

       -k | --kill
	      Kill an already running avahi-dnsconfd. (equivalent to sending a SIGTERM)

       -r | --refresh
	      Tell an already running avahi-dnsconfd to refresh the DNS server data. (equivalent to sending a SIGHUP)

       -c | --check
	      Return 0 as return code when avahi-dnsconfd is already running.

       -h | --help
	      Show help

       -v | --version
	      Show version information

FILES

       /etc/avahi/avahi-dnsconfd.action: the script to run when a DNS server is found or removed.

SIGNALS

       SIGINT, SIGTERM: avahi-dnsconfd will shutdown. This is issued by passing --kill to avahi-daemon.

       SIGHUP: avahi-dnsconfd will refresh the DNS server data.

AUTHORS

       The Avahi Developers <avahi (at) lists (dot) freedesktop (dot) org>; Avahi is available from http://avahi.org/

SEE ALSO

       avahi-daemon(8), avahi-dnsconfd.action(8)

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man(1) by Oliver Kurth.

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