Raspberry Pi avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain - solved

When setting up a Raspberry Pi with SqueezePlug, my favorite distribution for setting up a music server I always get the error message “avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain” because I have a lot of Apple equipment configured with Bonjour. To fix it, all you need to do is to edit /etc/default/avahi-daemon and change the line:

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1

AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0

then restart the Avahi-daemon with

sudo service avahi-daemon restart

Problem solved.

9 Comments

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Gonzalo Maqueira October 24, 2013

Thanks!!

Erik Thorselius November 12, 2013

Thanks a lot!

Jack Zimmermann November 13, 2013
I aim to please! :)

Keelin September 8, 2014

I'm using rPlay on raspbian on my Raspberry Pi. But it still doesn't show up on my iOS device. And the commands aren't working

gem October 23, 2014

I had the same error installing Airprint server. This change fix the problem.

Thanks.

Richard July 13, 2015

Thanks a lot, that trick made the time machine backups to my Raspberry based NAS work; solid as a rock!

kOoLiNuS March 10, 2016

thanks! it'll come handy in the future …

Murray Todd Williams May 31, 2017

Thanks! My AT&T U-Verse router just decided a couple weeks ago to clobber my .local domain (at least I think that's why all my Linux instances stopped working, unless it was an Ubuntu update) and I thought I was going to have to change ".local" on everything to something like ".death-to-att"

But your fix made all the pain go away. Thanks!

tntptntp December 24, 2017

This was driving me crazy. Thank you for posting this! Fixed it immediately :)