Cent OS default install, beware of avahi
Jun 27, 2008
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It doesn't matter whether you install centos desktop or centos server, the avahi daemon will be installed by default. This service is not needed and in fact may be a detrimental thing to have installed. Let me tell you a story, this story is filled with frustration and server downtime. We recently worked on some servers which were all running cent os. Some of the servers had cpanel/whm and some did not.
When we brought up a new server within the network, the avahi-daemon decided to release a bunch of static ip's on the cpanel server. I suspect this is an issue with the cpanel/avahi combination, that cpanel is storing the static configuration in a different place than avahi expects it so it decided to release and not reset the ips.
I don't see why anyone would want to have avahi installed on the server, especially by default. If you use Cent OS I highly suggest you disable avahi.
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