On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 08:56:45PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 20:01 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 Jul 2019 at 19:18:13 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I'd also consider exterminating avahi with extreme prejudice, i.e. > > > 'apt > > > purge avahi-daemon'. Really simplifies things. Not installing this > > > software in the first place works even better. > > > > Gene Heskett can follow this advice if he wishes. It is to be hoped > > that every other user ignores it. > > Why? It's advice I decided for myself 10 or more years ago after seeing > constant reports of zeroconf bugs in various OSes and kit, and > realising that sort of thing was also running on my Linux machines. The > whole idea of automagically setting up networks just sounds like a > problem and security hole waiting to happen. So I decided to nuke it > from orbit, it was the only safe thing to do. As always, all generalizations suck. Some do avahi, others don't (full disclosure: I am in the "don't" camp, as many may have guessed :-) Still, I dislike such statements as "exterminate". But YMMV. Cheers -- t
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