Why does avahi-daemon gives warning message "No NSS support for mDNS detected"?

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Issue

  • The avahi-daemon gives warning message in logs while starting up:

    avahi-daemon[19336]: WARNING:No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and 8
  • avahi

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