On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Stef Walter <stefw(a)gnome.org> wrote:
In the GNOME UI we'd like to make use of Avahi discovery and name
resolution
"out of the box". A typical use case is for discovery of printers that are
advertised using MDNS. This should work even on potentially 'hostile'
networks such as a wireless access point in a print shop or airport. It
should work without user configuration.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Desktop/Whiteboards/AvahiDefault
In order to turn on Avahi by default, and make it work by default, we'd like
to make it possible to use Avahi without advertising any information to the
network by default. Advertising information to the network (even the host
name) without the user's configuration or consent is a privacy issue.
libvirtd advertises itself via MDNS on the network by default. I understand
that MDNS discovery of libvirtd is really handy in many cases.
However since one has to configure network access in libvirtd anyway --
none of the access methods work "out of the box" to my understanding --
I'd
like to suggest turning off libvirtd's MDNS publishing by default. As part
of setting up libvirtd for network access, the user would turn on mdns_adv.
I hope that makes sense. Let me know if I've gotten something wrong.
Would you accept a patch to do this? Or would you suggest that we try and do
this downstream in the Fedora/RHEL packages instead?
Cheers,
Stef
A bit off topic for this list but I hope you're adding the ability to
configure a network as a friendly/trusted network vs a hostile
network. Similar to what Windows has when you connect it to a new
network. If you let it know that you're on a friendly network there
should be some way to enable all these services to auto-advertise
themselves. Otherwise they will becoming an annoying mess of having to
enable every service in every way to advertise itself.
--
Doug Goldstein