Avahi - daemon already running about gateway-docker HOT 8 CLOSED

I knew this was going to cause some issues...

Would an environment variable help? That way, you could disable avahi selectively.

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@white-gecko do you have a better solution for this?

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@mrstegeman as far as I understand the avahi daemon is required for the webthing-arduino add-on only, right?

In that case, I am ok with the environment variable solution, since I am not going to use it in the nearest feature 🤔

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It's used for a couple things:

• Publishing the hostname to the network, so that from a browser, you can navigate to http://gateway.local
• Doing .local DNS lookups, which are primarily (but not only) used by native web things (e.g. using the webthing-* libraries).

Neither of these are absolutely necessary, but are definitely conveniences.

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Ah yes, I can see the same message in my logs as well. But I think the avahi daemons seam not to further interfere as it seems to me.

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But sure I think an environment variable could control whether the daemon should be running. But this would not solve the issue to prevent the log messages.

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I think the issue here is that avahi is running on the host as well, and the Docker container is using host networking, so the two are somehow interfering.

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I have this log message too, and my host (CoreOS) isn't running avahi.

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