ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

[Soren Hansen]

Clearly, I'm too stupid to reply to the list, and mutt is not quite
clever enough to obey the mail-followup-to header..

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From: Soren Hansen <sh at linux2go.dk>
To: Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: ZeroConf in Ubuntu Edgy

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:18:59PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman 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?

I'm not sure "enough" is quite enough in this case. I believe we really
should build security policies on worst case and not assumptions about
the majority of users.

Besides, taking the current state of affairs in the wifi security area
into account, the problem is currently much closer than the ISP.

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