On 1/11/2012 6:42 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rilindo Foster wrote: > >>> 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.