Firewall

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:04 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:54 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 
> > And every time I do, I think "there's no reason it needs to be this
> > hard".  All I want to do is make movies on my hard drive visible to my
> > PS3.  Why is this harder than clicking "share"?  All I want to do is
> > plug the NAS drive I just bought from Best Buy into the ethernet cable
> > and put files on it.  Why do I have to play mother-may-I with the
> > firewall config tool before I can see that it's offering a UPNP service?
> 
> No reason - but why do I have to have the default on my OVERWHELMINGLY
> LARGE NUMBER OF SERVER INSTALLS be less secure b/c you want to do
> something like the above?
> 
> I shouldn't.
> 
> If you want to do that on the livecd - have at it.
> 
> if you want to make it the default system-wide then we have a problem.

That's not the question you asked. You asked what the use cases of Avahi
are, and people told you. You can't ask a question, get a bunch of very
good answers to it, and then say 'but those answers don't address this
different concern which is completely unrelated to my question!'
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