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Re: Disabling Avahi & fake dhcp when disconnected
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Ed Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Ed Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:14:25 -0700
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Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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> I'm wondering if there is something needful that breaks when
> I disable Avahi .   

Probably not for 99% of RHEL/SL users.  On servers in particular, avahi 
is worse than an annoyance.

Be warned that the update to RHEL-5.3 [re-]installs and enables avahi, 
apparently because the update to cups-libs requires 
avahi-compat-libdns_sd, which requires avahi.  Ugh.

-Ed

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