[avahi] breaking avahi through vpn

Sebastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 07:22:15 PST 2006


On 2/15/06, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 12.02.06 15:30, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > > If you're feeling lucky you can enable mDNS over pointopoint links by
> > > commenting the line containing "IFF_POINTOPOINT" in
> > > avahi-core/iface-linux.c and recompiling. YMMV! (We might even make
> > > this a user configurable option eventually, since so many people ask
> > > for it.)
> >
> > Btw we could make it configurable (disable by default) marking it
> > dangerous and unreliable to use as more and more people are interested
> > in this feature and as the latencies on some dedicated link may be low
> > enought.
> >
> > I could wrote this patch if we decide that it makes sense and document
> > the problems related to this.
>
> Yes, go ahead! This is certainly not a feature that would hurt.
>

i'll do

> Lennart
>
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