What is the avahi daemon? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange As to why there is an avahi user: it is a common security practice to create service accounts for the purpose of running background services So the avahi service account only has permissions for things dealing with the Avahi protocol, the mysql user only has permissions for things related to the database and etc This allows these services to
centos - What is the purpose of avahi on a RHEL 7 server? - Unix . . . Because of that I've disabled the avahi service via: # systemctl disable avahi-daemon socket avahi-daemon service # systemctl mask avahi-daemon socket avahi-daemon service # systemctl stop avahi-daemon socket avahi-daemon service So far I haven't noticed any limitations Thus, my question about the use-case(s) of avahi on a server system
avahi - What is mDNS? Is it possible to make mDNS query without mdns . . . avahi-browse -a to get a continuously updated list of service announcements from all nodes on your LAN and the services they offer A more verbose output is listed by avahi-browse -v -a -t The -t here also terminates the command automatically (and doesn't auto-update the list) after it can be assumed to have all currently active services
services - How can I disable avahi-daemon? - Ask Ubuntu Works once Next time you boot avahi starts again Is this what you want? No I think, because question was how to disable avahi (to start) use above mentioned 'sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon' to disable avahi without removing it or 'sudo apt-get remove avahi-daemon' to remove avahi permanently, so it can't start –
avahi - Multicasting multiple mdns names - Unix Linux Stack Exchange $ avahi-alias my-alias local my-second-alias local I did a lot of Googling into all this and you can see my resulting write up here There's a copy of the original wiki script there and instructions on how to get it running as a service
Newest avahi Questions - Unix Linux Stack Exchange Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network via the mDNS DNS-SD protocol suite This enables you to plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shar
Avahi daemon uses excessive amounts of CPU? - Ask Ubuntu Avahi daemon basically a network daemon that broadcasts your machine's IP address to the network For example A printer broadcast its IP using Avahi daemon saying that "I am a printer and I can print your documents" if you don't have any such devices to be used in the network, you can disable the daemon using the below commands on Ubuntu
How can I discover the hostnames for all the machines on my lan? Avahi tools There also are tools from the Avahi package to list services avahi-browse (from avahi-utils) Command line tool that browses the network for any services used by Avahi avahi-browse -at avahi-discover Is a GUI to display all Avahi services available:
How to disable avahi-daemon without uninstalling it sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon to disable boot time startup A few other options are systemctl list-units for a list of all known units, systemctl enable to enable boot time startup, systemctl start to start the service from terminal, but not enable boot time loading and systemctl stop to stop a service which has been started
avahi-browse cannot find all local computers although mDNS is working . . . In my case it was a Raspberry Pi with avahi running I could ping the Pi with ping raspberrypi local successfully I could even ssh with the local domain: ssh [email protected] When I ran avahi-browse initially I was getting a few different hosts on my network (media centres, TV boxes, etc ) but not the Raspberry Pi running Avahi