Why is avahi-daemon being started?

[Nataraj]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:39:55 +0200
> drago01 wrote:
>
>   
>>> finally squash avahi-daemon :-).  
>>>       
>> What did it ever do to you?
>>     
>
> I utterly despise all "helpful" software that automatically
> "discovers" things and triggers annoying sequences of
> events on my computer. If something happens, I want it to
> be because I told it to happen :-).
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/stick/stick.html
>   
I'm inclined to agree with Tom here.  While I wouldn't choose the the 
word despise, I have found the avahi-daemon to be annoying, including 
the fact that in current releases of Redhat, if I use chkconfig to 
disable it, updates turn it back on again and as Tom pointed out, it has 
so many dependencies, that the only way to remove it is to ignore the 
them.  For most of the servers that I build, security is an issue and a 
part of my approach is to disable all unneeded services.

So anything that I disable, I did so for a reason, and I find that a 
system that keeps trying to say, no, you really don't want to disable 
this and finds ways to turn it back on again is in conflict with my 
approach to security.  This includes updates as well as startup scripts.

Nataraj