avahi: avahi (service discovery aka zeroconf) avahi: avahi: Avahi is an Implementation the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast avahi: DNS specifications for Zeroconf Computing. It uses D-BUS for avahi: communication between user applications and a system daemon. The avahi: daemon is used to coordinate application efforts in caching replies, avahi: necessary to minimize the traffic imposed on networks. avahi: You must have an avahi user and group to run avahi. avahi: Something like this should suffice for most systems: avahi: # groupadd -g 214 avahi avahi: # useradd -u 214 -g 214 -c 'Avahi' -d /dev/null -s /bin/false avahi