howl, mdns, mdnsresponder and libnss-mdns

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:08:07AM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> ubuntu? Is there any security issues with this? It seams like anyone
> could bring a computer into my network and hijack any of my hostnames,
> that's not a good thing.

Yes, there are.  Apart from the possible issue you mention (I'm not sure how
the protocol resolves conflicts), to have this service working "out of the
box" would require that every Ubuntu system be listening on a network port
by default, which is a direct violation of our security policy.

What I expect we will do eventually is to provide an easy-to-enable option
for this feature, for those who want to use it.

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 - mdz