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Jonathan Cano
Asked: 2018-06-29 07:12:53 +0800 CST

I stopped mDNS with " sudo service avahi-daemon stop" but it keeps restarting

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I want to stop avahi-daemon (mDNS) and have it stay stopped.

It seems to restart a bit after midnight. Obviously some sort of periodic job is restarting it but I can't figure out what is.

TANGENT: I tried stopping avahi-daemon.service with systemctl but that did not work. Only the older style "service stop" stopped the service (albeit temporarily).

networking services 18.04 mdns

1 Answers

  1. You need to stop socket. You can use this command:

    sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket avahi-daemon.service

    Also you can disable service forever and restart the system:

    sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service
reboot

    To revert it run:

    sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
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