Im getting this on my Rasspberry Pi 2 also ... every few seconds ... v annoying 192.168.1.15 is a windows 10 box that is hosting a share im connected to using CIFS
Sep 14 07:41:22 pi-server avahi-daemon[2628]: Invalid response packet from host 192.168.1.15. Sep 14 07:41:47 pi-server avahi-daemon[2628]: Invalid response packet from host 192.168.1.15. Sep 14 07:41:51 pi-server avahi-daemon[2628]: Invalid response packet from host 192.168.1.15. liked the idea of getting a script to run to clean it out added this into a script file in /etc/cron.hourly sed -i".bak" '/Invalid response packet from host/d' /var/log/syslog seem to work well....just removes the lines directly from the syslog and creates a backup /var/log/syslog.bak -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to avahi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342400 Title: avahi-daemon constantly reporting "Invalid response packet from host" Status in avahi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After installing Ubuntu 14.04 (Release: 14.04) and looking for other information in /var/log/syslog, I see that syslog is being flooded by "Invalid response packet from host" messages from avahi-daemon. I searched around to see why this might be and ran across the following avahi mailing list post along with a patch to fix it: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2012-July/002171.html >>> I would say you can safely ignore it, since any machine on your network running a recent OSX version will cause these messages. Here's a patch with what we change to avoid these messages flooding syslog. -Justin <<< The patch which fixes this is here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/attachments/20120719/1e71846e/attachment.obj To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1342400/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
