ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Jul 3, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> ...
> My office wifi network agrees with you. I installed avahi and added 
> the avahi discovery applet to my panel - never known that there were 
> so many macs in the building...
>
> Rhythmbox (daap) also likes them, excellent choice of music some have 
> :)

Music sharing is off by default in iTunes, and can also be blocked for 
all users in the administrator-only firewall prefs. So all those music 
collections are from people who explicitly chose to share them.

> I would suggest not to make Ubuntu this open by default...
> ...

Why? Because revealing the existence of Ubuntu machines in the building 
is bad, sharing music voluntarily is bad, or some other reason?

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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