fedora 10 avahi & firewall weirdness

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri Nov 14 21:49:44 UTC 2008


> I think Fedora 9 firewall would allow avahi discovery packets through
> by default, Fedora 10 doesn't. You'd need to add the appropriate rules
> back to allow the avahi traffic through.

That would be totally sane, and I would understand that, but why are
packets from the outside allowed and not from the inside? Looks pretty
useless in a security point of view to me.

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