Firewall

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On 06/12/10 21:06, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 21:01 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:56:19PM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:55 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>>> seth vidal (skvidal at fedoraproject.org) said:
>>>>> Bittorrent won't work through many/most wireless routers unless they are
>>>>> not natted and/or not explicitly configured.
>>>>>
>>>>> what network games?
>>>>> Heck, what network games do we HAVE?
>>>>>
>>>>> what are the use cases of zeroconf-enabled apps that we're targetting?
>>>>
>>>> Zeroconf and IPP browse packets are both means of making priting less
>>>> of a giant pain to set up.
>>>
>>> ah, printing.
>>>
>>> Is there anything that's not last century?
>>
>>
>>    Yeah, general discovery.  From the top of my head:
>> - Pulseaudio sinks and sources
>> - libvirt instances for virt-manager
>> - VNC desktops for Vinagre
>> - local web pages (think SOHO router config page) for zeroconf
>>    enabled Webbrowsers like Epiphany
>> - remote disk management (udisks)
>> - local FTP sites and WebDAV shares shown in nautilus places
>>
>>    And this is all blocked by default Fedora firewall settings (5353/udp).
>>
>
> I'm confused - are any of the above intended to be used/available by
> anyone who is NOT experienced enough to know what iptables are and how
> to manage them? B/c I think it's a bit unlikely.
>
> -sv
>
>

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