Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

On 1/11/2012 6:42 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Rilindo Foster wrote:

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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?

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

But what applications use mdns?

As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd. Is it only used within local LANs? Is it used, for example, by CUPS to identify printers? When, if ever, would it be used in a home network?

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mdns http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mdns

multicast dns. How it applies to cent though i don't know at this instant.