Avahi Daemon resolving to wrong host name

[SriramP]

I am facing issues with avahi's address resolution to my apple airport router.

when I run avahi-browse -alr

eth0 IPv4 50-35-10-70.1 AirPort Express _sleep-proxy._udp local
hostname = [AirPort-Express.local]
address = [169.254.8.180]
port = [54121]
txt = []

This is the output, but my apple airport's ip address is 192.168.1.21

When I edited the /etc/avahi/hosts file to resolve to this IP address, it works for few minutes and then the address is back to 169.254.8.180

Thanks in advance.

[jchillerup]

That problem might arise from a missing route directive. Try doing this: sudo route add -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev wlp3s0 metric 99, replacing wlp3s0 with the name of your network interface.