I am suffering from this too, there doesn’t even seem to be any way to suppress the syslog pollution.
richardm@GTS-TEST-SERVER:~$ avahi-daemon -V avahi-daemon 0.6.30 richardm@GTS-TEST-SERVER:~$ uname -a Linux GTS-TEST-SERVER 3.2.0-87-generic #125-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 08:25:10 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux tail -f /var/log/syslog Aug 5 09:18:00 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Registering new address record for 10.10.1.230 on eth0.IPv4. Aug 5 09:18:00 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'. Aug 5 09:18:00 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Invalid response packet from host 10.10.1.108. Aug 5 09:18:01 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 3 times Aug 5 09:18:01 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Server startup complete. Host name is GTS-TEST-SERVER.local. Local service cookie is 3631106496. Aug 5 09:18:01 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Invalid response packet from host 10.10.1.108. Aug 5 09:18:02 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 4 times Aug 5 09:18:02 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Service "GTS-TEST-SERVER" (/services/udisks.service) successfully established. Aug 5 09:18:02 GTS-TEST-SERVER avahi-daemon[7787]: Invalid response packet from host 10.10.1.108. Aug 5 09:19:03 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 48 times Aug 5 09:20:06 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 103 times Aug 5 09:21:07 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 71 times Aug 5 09:22:09 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 38 times Aug 5 09:23:17 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 56 times Aug 5 09:24:18 avahi-daemon[7787]: last message repeated 29 times -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342400 Title: avahi-daemon constantly reporting "Invalid response packet from host" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1342400/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
