Do I need any part of Avahi at all?

[Tom H]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:52 PM Brian <ad44 at cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 28 Sep 2020 at 09:45:48 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>>
>> 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 :).

LOL. You must've missed the "it's by Apple so it's terrible."