Help please: Network Service Discovery Disabled

[Charles IRONS]

Thanks a ton Peter Silva. I stopped avahi and disabled it as you showed
me. 
Now all I get is a flash message that avahi is disabled.
My TP-LINK router connects automatically as "Auto Ethernet" without any
other action from me.
I am really grateful for your friendly help . Have a blessed festive
season.
Our preferred address is
irons.charles at gmail.com
Home   +2783 588 0028
On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:35 -0500, Peter Silva wrote:
> oops! on systemctl it is called 'avahi-daemon.service' not just
> 'avahi.service'
> just double checked.
> sorry.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Depends on version of ubuntu...
> > 
> > if  >= 16.04  (with systemd as init system)
> > 
> > #stop the running daemon:
> > systemctl stop avahi.service
> > 
> > # prevent start in future:
> > systemctl disable avahi.service
> > 
> > 
> > I don't have earlier versions handy... but they will be different
> > because
> > of upstart.
> > 
> > #stop the running daemon
> > service avahi-daemon stop
> > 
> > # prevent start in future:
> > update-rc.d avahi-daemon disable
> > 
> > I'm just quoting from here for the earlier versions:
> > http://askubuntu.com/questions/205937/how-can-i-disable-avahi-daemo
> > n
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Charles IRONS 
> > l.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi Peter Silva
> > > 
> > > I am happy to turn off avahi but have not found any way to do
> > > that in man
> > > pages or Ubuntu How To.
> > > 
> > > The TP-LINK user guide has masses of instructions that just
> > > confuse me. I am
> > > a retired end user.
> > > 
> > > Please give me guidance or commands.
> > > 
> > > Thanks & kind regards.
> > > --
> > > Our preferred address is
> > > irons.charles at gmail.com
> > > Home   +2783 588 0028
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 08:39 -0500, Peter Silva wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know of a practical useful service that is discovered
> > > by
> > > avahi? I know it is supposed to provide discovery, but it's never
> > > discovered anything on my networks, so I always just turn it off,
> > > especially because it tends to be unhappy about something most of
> > > the
> > > time.   I have the vague recollection of it breaking DNS also.
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > Charles Irons wrote:
> > > 
> > > I keep getting this warning. My new TP-LINK router still connects
> > > as
> > > Auto Ethernet but maybe I should change some configuration if you
> > > can
> > > send me terminal commands.
> > > "Network Service Discovery Disabled" appears on my screen with
> > > the
> > > message below that I could not copy.
> > > So I scanned Syslog and found the details below. Upper case is my
> > > edit. I have a text file with more of syslog if you want that.
> > > 
> > > Dec  4 16:15:53  Charles-PC avahi: AVAHI DETECTED THAT YOUR
> > > CURRENTLY
> > > CONFIGURED LOCAL DNS SERVER SERVES
> > > A DOMAIN .LOCAL. THIS IS INHERENTLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH AVAHI AND
> > > THUS
> > > AVAHI DISABLED ITSELF. IF YOU WANT TO USE AVAHI IN THIS NETWORK,
> > > PLEASE CONTACT YOUR ADMINISTRATOR AND CONVINCE HIM TO USE A
> > > DIFFERENT
> > > DNS DOMAIN, SINCE .LOCAL SHOULD BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR ZEROCONF
> > > TECHNOLOGY.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > There are no terminal commands - the message says it all: the
> > > fault is
> > > at the configuration of the TP-Link router because it uses the
> > > .local
> > > domain which is reserved for zeroconf. If you want to use
> > > zeroconf /
> > > avahi services, have a look at the router configuration. Maybe
> > > there is
> > > a way to change the local domain name to something different. But
> > > beware, there is no domain name reserved for local use (AFAIK),
> > > so you
> > > should check that the name you select isn't in use already on the
> > > public
> > > internet.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Nils
> > > 
> > > 
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