Subject: Re: bug#763: avahi-daemon: after some long time e.g. 124372 seconds, default route is removed

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:06:17 +0100

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Arthur,

Thanks for this.

On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 11:52:52AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: avahi-daemon
> Version: 0.8-10devuan1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> I'd previously had problems with the default route disappearing and
> having to do a ifdown eth0;ifup eth0 to fix it. Removing avahi-daemon fixed
> the issue, but the package was auto-added with some updates and I lost the
> default route shortly before 124372 seconds after boot-up and again shortly
> before 243950 seconds after boot-up.

There is not really enough information here to debug what is going on. You will
need to reinstall avahi-daemon and try to identify what is happening and why.

Are you suggesting the specific number of seconds is significant?

Are you just using ifupdown? No other network manager?

Mark