New ZeroConf Spec

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:53 PM, David Balazic wrote:
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> Matthew Paul Thomas wrote :
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>> 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 ?
> ...

So that if an administrator does not want anyone on the system (or any 
misbehaving application) to use Avahi at all, they can control that in 
a way that applications can't override.

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