host's fqdn not resolving

[Keith]

On 8/23/22 12:41 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 23 Aug 2022 at 09:57:15 -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> 
>> On 8/22/22 02:21, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>> That's the pain of letting Avahi etc. loose on your system and using
>>> the names it provides! :-)
>>
>> It wasn't me! :-)  Ubuntu is the one who installed and activated it
>> during the install (or maybe, it occurs to me now, as a result of
>> some other (Ubuntu) package that I installed.)
> 
> No, it was you that had it installed. You installed Ubuntu in some way
> that gave permission for avahi-daemon to be on the system. Don't want
> it now? Do
> 
>    apt purge avahi-daemon
> 
> Remove the pain :).
> 

Avahi-daemon is installed automatically for a number of installation tasks:

$ apt-cache show avahi-daemon
..
Task: print-server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, 
ubuntu-desktop-raspi, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, 
lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, 
ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, 
ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi

-- 
Keith