What will be the impact of disabling mDNS on my RHEL server?

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Issue

  • I would like to know the impact of disabling the mDNS service on my RHEL server.

  • My security team asked me to disable mDNS service (port 5353). Will there be any impact.

Environment

  • RHEL
  • avahi-daemon

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