New ZeroConf Spec

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Thu Jul 27 12:28:08 BST 2006


On 7/27/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> On do, 2006-07-27 at 12:18 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> >   2. edit nsswitch.conf to explicitly enable mdns for the 'hosts'
> > database.
>
> I noticed that recent base-files packages already enable mdns.

uh-oh.  My horror level is back to full-on.
- Dan

p.s. Yes, I should have left ssh out of the list of apps that trust
hostnames.  (It's a  rule in technical flamefests that if you have
any false statement in a post, readers will discount the rest of the post.
C'est la vie.)

Also, cups autodiscovery seems to be off in ubuntu:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28480
perhaps that was for security reasons?



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