howl, mdns, mdnsresponder and libnss-mdns

[Sam Tygier]

wow

glad to hear all this. i have tried to get this working between two hoary machines in a similar on a wireless network with dhcp. i could get the via epia to find the powerbook, but not the otherway around.

if it is working so well for you i will have another go.

can this all be put on the wiki? i'll do it if i can get the setup working for me.

can ubunutu find network printers like this?

sam

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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.
>