Unblock Avahi by default (for the Desktop live CDs)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 21:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

True. But right now, we cannot open a port depending on whether an
application is running (in this case, opening the mdns port if Avahi is
running). Some people would think it is a security problem (as you could
push any server on that port).