# avahi not working

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/219/avahi-not-working
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2021-04-30 15:14:19 UTC by plusk01
Replies: 2 · Views: 708

## plusk01 · 2021-04-30 15:14:19 UTC

Hi, I've flashed `modalai-3-2-0-0.2.0.tar.gz` (sys img and voxl suite) which has avahi 0.6.32

```bash
root@HX88~ $ avahi-daemon --version
avahi-daemon 0.6.32
```

but can't ping my hostname.local:

```bash
root@HX88~ $ systemctl status avahi
● avahi-daemon.service - LSB: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
root@HX88~ $
root@HX88~ $ systemctl start avahi
root@HX88~ $
root@HX88~ $ systemctl status avahi -l
● avahi-daemon.service - LSB: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-04-30 14:58:34 UTC; 2s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 3496 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/avahi-daemon.service
           └─3501 avahi-daemon: running [HX88.local]      

Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon...
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3496]: * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3501]: avahi-daemon 0.6.32 starting up.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3501]: Loading service file /etc/avahi/services/multi.service.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3501]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3501]: Server startup complete. Host name is HX88.local. Local service cookie is 1523486884.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3501]: Service "9x25 MobileAP MDNS" (/etc/avahi/services/multi.service) successfully established.
Apr 30 14:58:34 HX88 avahi-daemon[3496]: ...done.
root@HX88~ $
root@HX88~ $ hostname
HX88
root@HX88~ $
root@HX88~ $ ping HX88.local
ping: unknown host HX88.local
```

any hints?

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2021-05-23 03:26:03 UTC

Were you able to get this working? If not, we can take a look again.

## Reply by plusk01 · 2021-06-27 02:38:58 UTC

this is still an issue after trying voxlplatform_3.3.0

however, uninstalling avahi (`opkg remove avahi` and dependents) and install using https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/other/install-avahi works