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Posted by Jean-Michel DRICOT on June 10, 2001 at 1:01 PM

The problem was I did not enable the MULTICAST support in my Linux kernel.
Multicast is used by services & clients to discover lookup if no lookup address is specified "by hand"

Hope this will help some other people ;-)