Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:
> On to, 2011-03-03 at 12:47 +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> some package announce their existance to the world without any admin decision!
>> It is not a fud and a security hole!
>
> That's a vague generality... which packages? You mentioned phpmyadmin.
> What are the actual problems that results from this announcement? What
> bad things happen from it? Can the fact that you have phpmyadmin become
> known to an attacker via port scanning, or similar techniques? If so,
> does it matter if phpmyadmin also announces things via avahi? What do
> you suggest as a solution? Would a blanket policy of having all services
> to default to not announce themselves? What would the problems from such
> a policy be?
>
> (I don't know much about this stuff, and I don't particularly care, but
> it'd be nice if we could turn the discussion into a constructive one.)
Windows has the concept of home / private and public networks. On
public networks, sharing gets disabled.
Such a concept would be good for this situation as well. Let the user
indicate what type of network he is on and what type of services
should be opened to that network.
Olaf
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