Why does avahi-daemon give warning messages in logs: "No NSS support for mDNS detected"?
Issue
The avahi-daemon gives warning messages in logs while starting up.
avahi-daemon[19336]: WARNING:No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- avahi
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