Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

Lennart Poettering mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Tue Apr 13 19:02:41 UTC 2010


On Tue, 13.04.10 17:52, Bastien Nocera (bnocera at redhat.com) 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?

Definitely makes sense to me.

Ideally the normal distro would enable it too, but the desktop live cd
should be much less controversial.

Lennart

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