New ZeroConf Spec
David Balazic
david.balazic at hermes.si
Fri Jul 7 09:53:39 BST 2006
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote :
> Suggestion: Replace the alert with a checkbox in each relevant
> application's preferences. This has the major advantages of (a) not
> being an alert, and (b) letting the software present the choice in
> terms of things you might actually want to do. ("Share my music", as
> found in Rhythmbox, is something humans are interested in
> doing; "Would
> you like automatic discovery of other computers sharing rhythmbox
> service?" is not.)
But then why use a firewall at all ?
what benefit is in application calling
{
listen(x,y);
tell_firewall_to_open(PORT_FOO);
}
versus a simple listen(x,y) ?
Or will this preferences be handled by some system software ?
Which will then configure the FW for each application ?
Regards,
David Balažic
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