I've just realised I'm totally wrong the message that is actually appearing is from update-notifier, not /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon
unfortunately its midnight I must goto bed I will continue to investigate this issue tomorrow -- Avahi behaves badly where there is a unicast .local-domain. https://launchpad.net/bugs/83468 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs