hb-service listening on port 5353 which conflicts with avahi daemon
See original GitHub issueCurrent Situation
I currently have homebridge running on a raspberry pi 4, historically the “.local” address for homebridge has not been consistent, presumably due to mDNS. To resolve this issue, I have been using Ciao for mDNS and disabled Avahi. When Homebridge 1.4.0 came out, I switched back to Avahi since Homebridge now supported it.
Unfortunately the issue with homebridge’s “.local” not being accessible has comeback. I started debugging this, the first thing I did was look at Avahi’s log (by running sudo systemctl status avahi-daemon.service), which included the following sentence: *** WARNING: Detected another IPv4 mDNS stack running on this host. This makes mDNS unreliable and is thus not recommended. ***
Note that this is not always seen in the log since it depends on the order in which the various services listening on port 5353 are started, so after a “clean” restart this usually would not be visible but rather only upon restarting the avahi daemon.
I then proceeded to check which processes were listening on port 5353 (mDNS) and surprisingly discovered that there were 3:
- avahi-daemon
- chromium-browser
- hb-service
I first disabled chromium-browser listening on this port by creating a policy file which disabled Chromium’s media browser, this is done by creating a file named “disable_mediarouter.json” at “/etc/chromium-browser/policies/managed” which contains the following JSON: { “EnableMediaRouter”: false }
I then restarted the server and was indeed happy to discover that Chromium was no longer listening on port 5353. Unfortunately, the warning message still persists because hb-service is still listening on port 5353 in parallel to Avahi. I suspect the problem will persist as well, though I can’t be sure for the time being. If not, then this can just be ignored obviously.
My question is why is hb-service listening on this port given it should be using Avahi as set in the configuration? is there a way to disable it from listening on this port? is this even a problem?
Thanks in advance
Logs
● avahi-daemon.service - Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-01-25 18:05:48 IST; 2s ago
Main PID: 3579 (avahi-daemon)
Status: "avahi-daemon 0.7 starting up."
Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/avahi-daemon.service
├─3579 avahi-daemon: running [homebridge.local]
└─3580 avahi-daemon: chroot helper
Jan 25 18:05:48 homebridge avahi-daemon[3579]: *** WARNING: Detected another IPv4 mDNS stack running on this host. This makes mDNS unreliable and is thus not recommended. ***
pi@homebridge:~ $ sudo lsof -i:5353
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
hb-servic 882 pi 19u IPv4 20089 0t0 UDP *:mdns
avahi-dae 3579 avahi 12u IPv4 40351 0t0 UDP *:mdns
avahi-dae 3579 avahi 13u IPv6 40352 0t0 UDP *:mdns
Configuration
N/A
Environment
- OS: Rasperry Pi OS
- Software: Homebridge 1.4.0
- Node: v16.13.1
- npm: 8.3.0
Process Supervisor
hb-service
Additional Context
No response
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 2 years ago
- Comments:26 (1 by maintainers)
Done.
Okay, this has happened again, even with IPv6 disabled. I’m giving up, going back to ciao. Don’t understand why this is happening but don’t have a good way forward. Thanks for everyone here who tried to help.