[Bug 1342400] Re: avahi-daemon constantly reporting "Invalid response packet from host"

[Dan Sperka]

Tested on trusty amd64, extraneous syslog messages have disappeared.

As there is no rollup package in trusty to fetch everything, I had to
install the following packages from trusty-proposed

All are version 0.6.31-4ubuntu1.1_amd64

avahi-daemon/trusty-proposed
avahi-utils/trusty-proposed
avahi-autoipd/trusty-proposed

<Just installing the above doesn't do the trick. The libs are needed, or
at least some of them>

libavahi-core7/trusty-proposed 
libavahi-client3/trusty-proposed 
libavahi-common-data/trusty-proposed 
libavahi-common3/trusty-proposed 
libavahi-glib1/trusty-proposed 
libavahi-gobject0/trusty-proposed

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Title:
  avahi-daemon constantly reporting "Invalid response packet from host"

Status in avahi package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in avahi source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in avahi source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in avahi package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After installing Ubuntu 14.04 (Release: 14.04) and looking for other
  information in /var/log/syslog, I see that syslog is being flooded by
  "Invalid response packet from host" messages from avahi-daemon.

  I searched around to see why this might be and ran across the following avahi mailing list post along with a patch to fix it:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-July/002171.html

  >>>
  I would say you can safely ignore it, since any machine on your
  network running a recent OSX version will cause these messages.
  Here's a patch with what we change to avoid these messages flooding
  syslog.

  -Justin
  <<<

  The patch which fixes this is here:
  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/attachments/20120719/1e71846e/attachment.obj

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