Everytime I boot-up I get a message that says ''localhost... network discovery service is disabled ...Avahi does not support ".local...'' something like this.I am not using a home network.I want to disable avahi.I found some instructions on a website.Is this safe and the right way to do? ht tp://cyberfunda.com/question/how-to-disable-avahi-daemon-in-ubuntu/
To disable the avahi-daemon from starting on boot, the recommended way is: # echo "manual" >> /etc/init/avahi-daemon.override The 'override' will override the instruction in the avahi-daemon.conf file (in /etc/init/), the advantage being that the .conf file is not uninstalled. (I have to date not seen that message you are getting).
I am sorry but can you please tell me how to do it.I found the avahi-daemon.conf under etc/init.Am I going to write those lines under the text or do I have to create a new text named avahi-daemon.override and put those text inside?
Sorry, just enter the command in the terminal .. root@ocky-desktop:~# echo manual > /etc/init/avahi-daemon.override root@ocky-desktop:~# The override file will be created and you can delete it any time you want to revert.
Arghhhhh I got the messahe again today.This is from my log file: ar 17 10:10:18 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 avahi: Avahi disabled itself. If you want to use Avahi in this network, please Mar 17 10:10:18 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 avahi: contact your administrator and convince him to use a different DNS domain, Mar 17 10:10:18 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 avahi: since .local should be used exclusively for Zeroconf technology. Mar 17 10:10:18 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 avahi: For more information, see http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAndUnicastDotLocal Mar 17 10:10:20 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 goa[1833]: goa-daemon version 3.4.0 starting [main.c:112, main()] Mar 17 10:10:25 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 NetworkManager[847]: <info> (eth0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed. Mar 17 10:10:25 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 NetworkManager[847]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled... Mar 17 10:10:25 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 NetworkManager[847]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started... Mar 17 10:10:25 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 NetworkManager[847]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete. Mar 17 10:10:33 ceylan-OptiPlex-390 dbus[810]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': timed out
See this thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1482573.html (Second last post). Looks like adding changing "AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1" to "AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0" in /etc/default/avahi-daemon may solve the problem. OR, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/foundations-bugs/2012-December/129282.html
