On 2/9/23 07:53, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 07:32:18AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...](I have no idea what mdns4_minimal is, but Debian put it there, and it hasn't caused a problem yet so I left it alone.)This is a zeroconf thingy. My box hasn't that, because I banned Avahi and its ilk long ago. Just out of curiosity: does your box have one of those funny link-local IPv4 169.254.xxx.yyy addresses? Cheers
rant on:Same here Tomas, anytime I see one of those addresses, avahi is another NSFW word, and it goes out by way of rm. That thing has caused me enough trouble to last a lifetime, insisting on making that 169.xx.xx.xx the default route. And regardless of the magic you put in /etc/network/interfaces, it cannot be removed by anything but rm. When its there, you can't even post a message asking how to get rid of it legally. I'll not name names here because it would trigger another war. BETTER YET GET RID OF ITS DEPENDENCY'S so the package manager won't tear the system out by its roots removing in it. Better yet, nuke the repository that holds its master copy.
/rant off. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>