iptables?

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Knute Johnson wrote:

>My stock desktop FC4 has a chain in it to allow UDP on 224.0.0.251 
>port 5353.  Any idea what that is for?
>
>Thanks,
>
>  
>
The mDNSResponder service, providing multicast DNS which is used by MACs 
for zeroconf service discovery aka rendezvous.
If you don't need rendezvous then you don't need the iptables rule, nor 
the mDNSResponder and nifd services.

Chris

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