Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

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

I've been getting a few avahi-daemon errors in /var/log/messages, eg

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?

-- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases.