[Bug 1321663] [NEW] disallow-other-stacks=no is not working

[Michael Zanetti]

Public bug reported:

avahi-daemon.conf has an entry disallow-other-stacks. According to the
docs, if this is set to "no", other stacks should be able to bind UDP
port 5353. However this doesn't work, regardless of this setting, avahi
grabs the port in exclusive mode and doesn't let other applications
snoop mDNS traffic any more. This breaks some application's auto
discovery for network devices.

** Affects: avahi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  avahi-daemon.conf has an entry disallow-other-stacks. According to the
  docs, if this is set to "no", other stacks should be able to bind UDP
  port 5353. However this doesn't work, regardless of this setting, avahi
  grabs the port in exclusive mode and doesn't let other applications
- snoop nDNS traffic any more. This breaks some application's auto
+ snoop mDNS traffic any more. This breaks some application's auto
  discovery for network devices.

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Title:
  disallow-other-stacks=no is not working

Status in “avahi” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  avahi-daemon.conf has an entry disallow-other-stacks. According to the
  docs, if this is set to "no", other stacks should be able to bind UDP
  port 5353. However this doesn't work, regardless of this setting,
  avahi grabs the port in exclusive mode and doesn't let other
  applications snoop mDNS traffic any more. This breaks some
  application's auto discovery for network devices.

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