mDNS being blocked on local network

iamjaydear
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mDNS being blocked on local network

Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:16 pm

With HideAway connected my scanner software cannot find my scanner which is connected through wifi. Disconnect HA and it appears (happy, happy, joy, joy). VueScan support say HA must be blocking mDNS. I've only just struck this oddness as I now have HA set to start with Windows. I'm surprised anything within the local network is blocked by HA :help
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nick.bolton
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Re: mDNS being blocked on local network

Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:53 pm

Hi,

I'll need to check with developers, but we do allow all local traffic.

Multicast DNS (mDNS) is on
IPv4 address 224.0.0.251 or IPv6 address ff02::fb
UDP port 5353

It would be simple enough to add in as an exception
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nick.bolton
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Re: mDNS being blocked on local network

Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:00 pm

We'll add it in the next version. Had another user with a scanner issue ages ago and we could never figure it out, so it's nice to sort that one out finally.
iamjaydear
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Re: mDNS being blocked on local network

Sun Aug 23, 2020 5:05 am

:D

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