Help please: Network Service Discovery Disabled

[Charles IRONS]

Hi Peter Silva
I am happy to turn off avahi but have not found any way to do that in
man pages or Ubuntu How To.
The TP-LINK user guide has masses of instructions that just confuse me.
I am a retired end user.
Please give me guidance or commands. 
Thanks & kind regards.
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On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 08:39 -0500, Peter Silva wrote:
> Does anyone know of a practical useful service that is discovered by
> avahi? I know it is supposed to provide discovery, but it's never
> discovered anything on my networks, so I always just turn it off,
> especially because it tends to be unhappy about something most of the
> time.   I have the vague recollection of it breaking DNS also.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Charles Irons wrote:
> > > 
> > > I keep getting this warning. My new TP-LINK router still connects
> > > as
> > > Auto Ethernet but maybe I should change some configuration if you
> > > can
> > > send me terminal commands.
> > > "Network Service Discovery Disabled" appears on my screen with
> > > the
> > > message below that I could not copy.
> > > So I scanned Syslog and found the details below. Upper case is my
> > > edit. I have a text file with more of syslog if you want that.
> > > 
> > > Dec  4 16:15:53  Charles-PC avahi: AVAHI DETECTED THAT YOUR
> > > CURRENTLY
> > > CONFIGURED LOCAL DNS SERVER SERVES
> > > A DOMAIN .LOCAL. THIS IS INHERENTLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH AVAHI AND
> > > THUS
> > > AVAHI DISABLED ITSELF. IF YOU WANT TO USE AVAHI IN THIS NETWORK,
> > > PLEASE CONTACT YOUR ADMINISTRATOR AND CONVINCE HIM TO USE A
> > > DIFFERENT
> > > DNS DOMAIN, SINCE .LOCAL SHOULD BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR ZEROCONF
> > > TECHNOLOGY.
> > There are no terminal commands - the message says it all: the fault
> > is
> > at the configuration of the TP-Link router because it uses the
> > .local
> > domain which is reserved for zeroconf. If you want to use zeroconf
> > /
> > avahi services, have a look at the router configuration. Maybe
> > there is
> > a way to change the local domain name to something different. But
> > beware, there is no domain name reserved for local use (AFAIK), so
> > you
> > should check that the name you select isn't in use already on the
> > public
> > internet.
> > 
> > 
> > Nils
> > 
> > 
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