Avahi error message

[AndyL]

I get this occasionally:

avahi-daemon[2382]: server.c: Packet too short or invalid while reading response record. (Maybe a UTF-8 problem?)

I understand that avahi is a process that runs to discover network devices. Two questions:

What does the above error mean and
Does this process really need to run?

 

[dietmar]

A pve standard installation does not run that daemon.

 

[AndyL]

Ok - that makes sense. This is my test box, so it does have some non-standard stuff on it. Thanks for the reply.