On 11/01/12 11:16 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
its part of multimedia home network plug and play, I believe... lets media boxes find media servers, and such. if you were to serve up streaming media on a home network, it would be a useful thing to have. otherwise? meh.
I use AVAHI for an office full of iDevices that the boss wanted to be able to print from. AVAHI lets me advertise the CUPS printers in a format that the iDevices can see and subsequently utilise.
Otherwise I disable and remove it on my other server instances.
Cheers -pete