[mythtv-users] Myth UPnP server disappearing

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 08:40:21 Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Brian Wood<beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > I've had a problem with Myth's UPnP server showing up on UPnP clients on
> > my network - sometimes.
> >
> > But other times it's not there.
>
> I've had similar problems and posted about them here in the past but
> never got any resolution.  There were a handful of threads on this in
> June.  It seems to be a common problem.
>
> For me, the voodoo which gets it to show up is to run "tcpdump host
> 239.255.255.250" on the backend.  If that's running, I can see the
> UPNP server from anywhere on the network, and without it I can't.  I
> don't know why.

Interesting. Are you using a PS3 as a UPnP client? If so, the comments in the 
WiKi about troubleshooting UPnP might be relevant:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/UPnP


-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org