ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

[Tobias Wolf]

Am Montag, den 03.07.2006, 15:32 -0700 schrieb Dan Kegel:
> On 7/3/06, Tobias Wolf <towolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > No, and no, respectively. The usability problem is that users have to
> > > deal with firewalls at all. We address it by short-circuiting the issue:
> > > because we don't ship open ports, our users don't have to worry much
> > > about firewalling.
> >
> > And how many users still have zero open ports one year after installing
> > Ubuntu?
> 
> All the ones who didn't need to open ports, which is probably
> most of them.
> 
> You aren't seriously arguing to get rid of the no-open-ports policy,
> are you?  That policy is the single most effective protection against
> infection there is.
> - Dan

Uh, sure, but what about people using their PC for more than WWW and
email? What about Samba, Cups in browse mode, Rhythmbox in sharing mode,
filesharing with Bittorrent et al., VOIP, SSH, an Apache for web pages
or webdav, NFS, et cetera ad inf. Linux is an essentially networked OS.
Do want to extend the policy to a port opening prohibition?
In that case the Ubuntu target audience is clearly of limited scope.
Just at the Howto instructions on the forums. You’ll find a port opening
fest. Should they all go elsewhere instead? Or should they get hacking
iptables by hand if they really want to open ports?

-- Tobias