avc denied from mDNSResponder

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Sun Jul 11 09:00:26 UTC 2004


On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:54:56AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> Once upon a time Sunday 11 July 2004 1:40 am, Russell Coker wrote:

> > What is this /usr/bin/mDNSResponder and where do I find an RPM for it?
> >
> > Binding to port 53 is an operation for a daemon, why is it happening in
> > user_r:user_t?
> 
> mDNS is a bind replacement  and it was probably built and installed from 
> source is my guess.  Fedora does not ship it

It's not a bind replacement it's a multicast dns implementation, related to
zeroconf:

http://www.multicastdns.org/

Basically that plus link level configuration, plus service discovery ==
Rendezvous.

Paul



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