Help please: Network Service Discovery Disabled

[Colin Law]

On 12 December 2016 at 13:39, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> 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.

I think, though not certain, that you will disable auto discovery of
networked printers if you disable avahi.

Colin

>
> 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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