Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Tue, 13.04.10 14:35, Seth Vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
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>> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> I think if this request is fulfilled then making avahi default on would be
>> okay.
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>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530087
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>> but only AFTER that request is filled.
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>> how does that sound?
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> 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