On Sunday, 10 April 2022 06:06:31 EDT to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 05:46:35AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Then why, after a decade and change of bitching about it because it > > insists on putting a 169.254.xx,yy address in ones routing table that > > only removing avahi fixes, has it not been fixed? > > This would be an IPv4 link-local [0] address. Correctly naming > things is always the first step to taking control over them: > casting spells and that ;-) > > Setting that up is zeroconf's [1] job, which, AFAIK, is actually > done by the avahi daemon. I can't check it myself, because my > box has no avahi. > > But if you know how the thing's called, you can throw your spells > at a search engine (hopefully not the one of survellance capitalism, > but I disgress ;-) and find things like [2]. It tells you how to > convince different systems to not do that; under Debian, this would > be putting AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0 into some > /etc/default/avahi-daemon.
Then whyintarnation does it not say that in what serves as a man page? > No need to rm it. But if it satisfies you, you're your box's boss :) Exactly. > I just don't install it. And how do you accomplish that? Its automatically installed AFAIK. And once installed, apt will not remove it without destroying the install. rm or chmod -x seems to be the only way, and nothing complains. > Cheers > -- > t Take care and stay well Tomas. 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
