New ZeroConf Spec
Travis Watkins
alleykat at gmail.com
Wed Jul 26 23:28:20 BST 2006
On 7/26/06, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Anyone who knows anything about network security
> should agree that mDNS should only be used on
> trusted networks. But how are we to know Ubuntu
> is going to be installed on a safe network?
> What if it's in a room full of Windows boxes, seething
> with malware? Do we really want to trust every
> packet that comes via mDNS from those machines?
> - Dan
>
Following that reasoning if what Lennart says is true about dhclient
we shouldn't have DHCP either because the network might be full of
Windows boxes, seething with malware.
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Travis Watkins
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