I have two VMs running Ubunut 14.04 on Virtualbox. They are connected via VIP. Syslog on node1 shows recuring error messages from Avahi and I can't find the problem nor the solution.
tail /var/log/syslog
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Host name conflict, retrying with node1-47
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fef0:2b00 on eth2.*.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.59 on eth2.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fe01:2f25 on eth1.*.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 10.0.0.121 on eth1.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 10.0.0.120 on eth1.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fe60:7f89 on eth0.*.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 10.0.0.10 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 192.168.56.151 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 192.168.56.150 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 192.168.56.121 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering new address record for 192.168.56.120 on eth0.IPv4.
Aug 18 09:15:16 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fef0:2b00 on eth2.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.0.59 on eth2.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fe01:2f25 on eth1.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 10.0.0.121 on eth1.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 10.0.0.120 on eth1.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::a00:27ff:fe60:7f89 on eth0.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 10.0.0.10 on eth0.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.56.150 on eth0.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.56.121 on eth0.
Aug 18 09:15:36 localhost avahi-daemon[902]: Withdrawing address record for 192.168.56.120 on eth0.
node1:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:60:7f:89
inet addr:192.168.56.120 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe60:7f89/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1470 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:110754 (110.7 KB) TX bytes:425774 (425.7 KB)
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:60:7f:89
inet addr:192.168.56.121 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:01:2f:25
inet addr:10.0.0.120 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe01:2f25/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5036 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:336379 (336.3 KB) TX bytes:524405 (524.4 KB)
eth1:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:01:2f:25
inet addr:10.0.0.121 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:f0:2b:00
inet addr:192.168.0.59 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fef0:2b00/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:575 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:118869 (118.8 KB) TX bytes:178305 (178.3 KB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:8938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:534220 (534.2 KB) TX bytes:534220 (534.2 KB)
How could I fix this problem? Config looks OK to me.
If your DNS server that this server uses has a .local domain then avahi will fail to work. See http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal for more info on this.