Avahi bollixing local network?

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

On 12/15/2013 10:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 05:58 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
>> At about this time (PST) both VNC windows stopped working.  One VNC
>> window could not be closed except
>> by killall.  Ping reported network unreachable.  I had to disconnect and
>> reconnect with the network manager
>> applet to restore normal operation.   Asus p8z77-le plus, 3770k 32 GB
>> with realtek 8111f LAN chip.
>>
>> Dec 15 05:18:50 omen3 avahi-daemon[568]: Withdrawing address record for
>> 192.168.1.14 on p4p1.
>> Dec 15 05:18:50 omen3 avahi-daemon[568]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on
>> interface p4p1.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.14.
>> Dec 15 05:18:50 omen3 avahi-daemon[568]: Interface p4p1.IPv4 no longer
>> relevant for mDNS.
> I think you're confusing symptom and cause. avahi-daemon does that when
> the network goes down. You need to look earlier and find out why the
> network went down.
I did not find any messages shortly before that time other
than the incessant spurious "Test WP failed" messages that
clutter the messages file.

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