[CentOS] Is avahi essential?

[Rilindo Foster]

On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> I've been getting a few avahi-daemon errors in /var/log/messages, eg
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> Jan 11 00:40:24 helen avahi-daemon[12732]: Invalid query packet.                                                             
> Jan 11 00:40:29 helen last message repeated 17 times                                                                         
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> (This is on a CentOS-5.7 server.)
> 
> So I looked up avahi on the web, but as far as I could see
> it is not doing anything essential;
> so I was wondering if stopping avahi-daemon would have any bad effect?
> 
> 
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> Timothy Murphy  
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Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases.