On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Tue, 13.04.10 14:35, Seth Vidal (skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >>> Heya, >>> >>> It seems to me that Avahi would be safe to run by default. That would >>> allow accessing remote machines through their .local names, even if it >>> wouldn't solve the problem of sharing *from* the machine itself. >>> >>> But it would mean we can SSH, or VNC into local area machines, and >>> consume data (shares, music, etc.). >>> >>> Comments? >> >> >> I think if this request is fulfilled then making avahi default on would be >> okay. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530087 >> >> but only AFTER that request is filled. >> >> how does that sound? > > What does that bug report to do with the firewall and the desktop live > cd? having avahi running and active by default. if various tools dep on the lib, then a system won't end up with avahi installed and running by default. The above is something of a surprise to many folks running servers. the comment from JH is the admin/manager of kernel.org who was a bit frustrated by avahi running as a service. -sv -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
