diff --git a/script/bootstrap b/script/bootstrap
index 806cc1c8a82..0b72aa49715 100755
--- a/script/bootstrap
+++ b/script/bootstrap
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ install_packages_apt()
     sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y libjsoncpp-dev
 
     # reference device
-    without REFERENCE_DEVICE || sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y radvd dnsutils
+    without REFERENCE_DEVICE || sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y radvd dnsutils avahi-utils
 
     # backbone-router
     without BACKBONE_ROUTER || sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y libnetfilter-queue1 libnetfilter-queue-dev