Bug 524654

Summary: turn off wide-area avahi browsing by default
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche>
Component: avahiAssignee: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: chkr, lpoetter, ronald.wahl
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2009-09-21 15:57:09 UTC
It is undesirable to have the demonstration avahi wide-area domains'
("0pointer.de" and "zeroconf.org") doodads show up in an
"avahi-discover" view.  That data is cute but useless.

Please either turn off wide-area stuff by default, or take out those
two demonstration domains from /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf.

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Comment 2 Frank Ch. Eigler 2010-04-28 11:26:40 UTC
Still an issue in F13.

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Comment 4 Frank Ch. Eigler 2011-06-02 18:42:31 UTC
Still present.
0pointer.de and zeroconf.org still spam.

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:46:03 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Comment 6 Christian Krause 2013-09-16 22:28:30 UTC
(In reply to Frank Ch. Eigler from comment #0)
> It is undesirable to have the demonstration avahi wide-area domains'
> ("0pointer.de" and "zeroconf.org") doodads show up in an
> "avahi-discover" view.  That data is cute but useless.

I'd like to second this request. Zeroconf is used more and more (e.g. cups seems to move from its old 'cups' protocol to zeroconf/dns-sd for discovering remote printers), these demonstration defaults get more disturbing.

Since the whole idea of the zeroconf technology is to avoid configuration, the default setting should be sane and not contain unwanted and useless data which may misguide people.

> Please either turn off wide-area stuff by default, or take out those
> two demonstration domains from /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf.

Yes and No. ;-)

Multicast-based DNS-SD only works on the same subnet. For using zeroconf in a routed setup (e.g. to announce remote printers which are in a different subnet), wide-area DNS-SD is needed.

By adding the appropriate DNS records to the DNS server hosting the domain used by the PCs, an administrator can make these printers available without any client configuration.

So removing the demonstration URLs would be good, but the wide-area domain support should stay on (it will automatically use the domain of the hostname of the PC).


It would be great if this change could be considered (if possible for all releases down to F19).

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