On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Stef Walter <stefw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In the GNOME UI we'd like to make use of Avahi discovery and name resolution > "out of the box". A typical use case is for discovery of printers that are > advertised using MDNS. This should work even on potentially 'hostile' > networks such as a wireless access point in a print shop or airport. It > should work without user configuration. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/AvahiDefault > > In order to turn on Avahi by default, and make it work by default, we'd like > to make it possible to use Avahi without advertising any information to the > network by default. Advertising information to the network (even the host > name) without the user's configuration or consent is a privacy issue. > > libvirtd advertises itself via MDNS on the network by default. I understand > that MDNS discovery of libvirtd is really handy in many cases. > > However since one has to configure network access in libvirtd anyway -- > none of the access methods work "out of the box" to my understanding -- I'd > like to suggest turning off libvirtd's MDNS publishing by default. As part > of setting up libvirtd for network access, the user would turn on mdns_adv. > > I hope that makes sense. Let me know if I've gotten something wrong. > > Would you accept a patch to do this? Or would you suggest that we try and do > this downstream in the Fedora/RHEL packages instead? > > Cheers, > > Stef > A bit off topic for this list but I hope you're adding the ability to configure a network as a friendly/trusted network vs a hostile network. Similar to what Windows has when you connect it to a new network. If you let it know that you're on a friendly network there should be some way to enable all these services to auto-advertise themselves. Otherwise they will becoming an annoying mess of having to enable every service in every way to advertise itself. -- Doug Goldstein -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list