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

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

** Affects: avahi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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avahi-daemon constantly reporting "Invalid response packet from host"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342400
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