Do I need any part of Avahi at all?

[Brian]

On Mon 28 Sep 2020 at 09:45:48 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:40:20 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > one person's anecdote:
> > 
> > I've been running that way for years... removing avahi whenever it showed
> > up. It's a different (supposedly easier/self/autoconfiguring) way of doing
> > the same thing, but if you're handy with dns and dhcp, then there is very
> > little value in avahi.
> 
> Avahi is an "Apple" thing that is meant to auto-discover things on your
> network and auto-configure them. This *might* be a good idea for people who
> are totally clueless and are randomly plugin in printers, scanners, computers,
> and such into their home network. I guess it *sometimes* works ok. It can be a
> royal pain in the arse if you have a well organized LAN (eg you have a DHCP
> server configured to give "static" IP addresses to your networked devices) and
> a DNS server (eg Bind9) that provides host names for all of your network
> devices. Avahi will *probable* provide confusing (not always correct)
> configurations. That is, if you have a networked printer that you have
> carefully configured on your LAN, Avahi will procede to auto-configure it
> *again*, not necessarily the wayv*you* want it configured, likely as not
> creating an additional printer queue, so you might suddenly have two print
> queues on your wife's laptop: HomeOfficePrinter (that you configured) and
> LP12847585 (showing up "randomly" and confusing your wife). This sort of
> nonsense kept happening at the local library where I manage a network of
> Ubuntu workstations, until I did an apt-get purge \*avahi\*...

Some users might classify this as a totally clueless analysis of the
situation :). Avahi does not auto-configure printers.

-- 
Brian.