ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Jun 28 22:18:59 BST 2006


On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:47:58PM +0200, John Nilsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 09:15 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > Ubuntu has a no-open-ports by-default policy, which means that any
> > mDNS/DNS-SD based discovery cannot be enabled by default.
> 
> How about a semi-closed policy? I.e. having a iptables configuration
> that is a bit more trusting of private networks.

That's an interesting idea.  But are enough ISPs and corporate networks
doing proper filtering these days for that to be safe?

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 - mdz



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