avahi-daemon unable to handle multicast packets in RHEL 6

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Issue

  • avahi-daemon is 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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