Do I need any part of Avahi at all?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 01:21:03AM +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 1:38 PM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > I run several [x]ubuntu systems on a small home LAN. There is a
> > separate Raspberry Pi system running dnsmasq to provide local DNS and
> > DHCP.
> >
> > Therefore I don't think I need any part of Avahi, am I right? Can I
> > simply uninstall it all? There's avahi-autoipd, avahi-daemon and
> > avahi-utils plus some libraries.
> 
> avahi makes printing simpler.
> 
> I used to use BIND on my home network, but I've repurposed that box,
> and I now use "<hostname>.local" for ssh/nfs/etc. Simpler too.
> 
With a reasonable DHCP/DNS server on the system even printers get
'proper' names, no need for this .local stuff, the name of the printer
is just <hostname>.  My OKI printer is called 'oki', much quicker to
type than oki.local if nothing else! :-)

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Chris Green