"Workstation" Product defaults to wide-open firewall

[Pete Travis]

On Dec 9, 2014 11:33 AM, "Chuck Anderson" <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:16:54AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
> > But seriously, there's an implication in this thread that there will be
> > work happening to give stuff a path to ask for an open port.  Where can
we
> > follow along with that effort? Starting with, say, how I might change
> > `nikola runserver` or `django-admin runserver` to ask for the port, and
> > ending with the resulting UI that asks me for approval?
>
> The functionality for a program to ask for an open port already
> exists.  It is called bind(2).
> --

I should have said "ask firewalld for a port to be opened" - sorry, I
thought that would come from the context.

Are you saying bind() should be talking to firewalld, via some approval
agent?  how do we make that happen?

--Pete
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