[avahi] What does it mean - invalid response packet from host <ip address>

[Justin Maggard]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Troyanker, Vlad <vlad at lab126.com> wrote:
> I am on a medium size corporate network running ubuntu 11.04 x64. Avahi
> version is 0.6.30
>
> I see syslog overflowing with messages like this. I get many messages every
> second. Many different ip addresses seems to offend avahi daemon, not just
> 1-2. My question is what do these messages mean? Are they incompatibility
> notice I can safely ignore  or something is really broken?
>

I would say you can safely ignore it, since any machine on your
network running a recent OSX version will cause these messages.
Here's a patch with what we change to avoid these messages flooding
syslog.

-Justin
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