On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:56, Loye Young wrote: > > About not starting avahi-daemon: (this is ubuntu/debian specific) > > <snip details> > (1) Your comments are helpful and should be easily accessible in the > documentation. > (2) AVAHI_DAEMON_START=0 should be default, IMHO. Better yet, avahi > shouldn't be on the system at all unless specifically installed. At most, > it should be a "Suggested" dependency. > (3) Still doesn't explain how to get avahi off the machine and leave it in > a usable and upgradeable state.
Agreed. IMO it's in technical compliance with no open ports by default, but really stretches the spirit of it. > > So what is the missing documentation in avahi? > > (1) See above. > (2) How it interacts with and overrides (some would argue "hijacks") the > normal Debian networking system of ifupdown, /etc/network/interfaces, etc. > (3) What the jargon in the documentation means. E.g., the following line > from the avahi-daemon manpage is unintelligible to someone who doesn't > already know the avahi system: > " The daemon registers local IP addresses and static services > using mDNS/DNS-SD and provides > two IPC APIs for local programs to make use of the mDNS record > cache the avahi-daemon maintains. " > Whoever wrote this must have an affinity for tax regulations under the U.S. > Internal Revenue Code. ;-) Personally I'd rather stay entirely away from it. The entire mDNS idea is a gross DNS hack that ends up piling .local queries up against the DNS roots. Scott K -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
