avahi-daemon unable to handle multicast packets in RHEL 6
Issue
avahi-daemonis logging the following in/var/log/messages:
avahi-daemon[xxxx]: Invalid query packet.
- These are not invalid packets but in fact multicast packets from Mac OS X hosts.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
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