I found a mailing list post which mentioned this, but no replies: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2010-March/001863.html
It actually causes problems for Pidgin in certain circumstances, see bug #1841621. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1102906 Title: Cannot broadcast both on global and link address on same interface To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/avahi/+bug/1102906/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
