On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Tue, 13.04.10 14:35, Seth Vidal (skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org)
wrote:
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> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>> Heya,
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>> It seems to me that Avahi would be safe to run by default. That would
>> allow accessing remote machines through their .local names, even if it
>> wouldn't solve the problem of sharing *from* the machine itself.
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>> But it would mean we can SSH, or VNC into local area machines, and
>> consume data (shares, music, etc.).
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>> Comments?
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> I think if this request is fulfilled then making avahi default on would be
> okay.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530087
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> but only AFTER that request is filled.
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> how does that sound?
What does that bug report to do with the firewall and the desktop live
cd?
having avahi running and active by default.
if various tools dep on the lib, then a system won't end up with avahi
installed and running by default. The above is something of a surprise to
many folks running servers.
the comment from JH is the admin/manager of
kernel.org who was a bit
frustrated by avahi running as a service.
-sv