howl, mdns, mdnsresponder and libnss-mdns

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:31:29PM +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:43:20 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Two questions regarding this
> 1) Does this mean that nautilus dns-sd over mdns will not be
> provided/supported/possible in hoary? Going into network:// should
> show all ftp and webdav services for example.

zeroconf/howl service discovery is not a goal for Hoary, no.  It will be
possible to enable it by installing the relevant packages, if this
functionality is desired.

> 2) Going into network:// currently shows all windows shares.  If I'm
> not mistaken that is also done with a broadcast model.  Kind of like
> mdns.  Shouldn't this also be disabled?

No; in this case it is the client who broadcasts, and no service is
listening on the client by default.

-- 
 - mdz