New ZeroConf Spec

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/22/06, Patrick McFarland <diablod3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That printer example doesn't work for devices that are internet appliances...
> such as printers that provide smb printer services and plug directly into the
> network (ie, not requiring a host computer). They, obviously, don't do ipsec.

Mmm, true.  But supporting them would leave us wide open
to security holes, so maybe that's ok.

BTW, there's some discussion on
http://wiki.debian.org/ZeroConf

And, scarily, KDE itself seems to implement zeroconf:
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-print.php?page=Zeroconf%20in%20KDE
but presumably Ubuntu could disable that in its KDE.
- Dan