From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: A fairly conservative approach in enabling network services by default is a Good Thing[tm] and it is also RH policy. Rendevous is not indispensable or even necessary for networking. In fact, in the typical RHEL server installation it is plainly redundant. Thus, I think it should be left up to the individual admin to enable it. Currently it gets installed and enabled by default. This applies to FC too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.6-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 2. Boot Actual Results: mDNSresponder is running Expected Results: mDNSresponder should not be running
Its needed for a good "desktop experience", and desktop users won't be configuring it manually, so its enabled to get a good out-of-the-box experience (if howl + desktop is installed). However, server admins are able to disable it if they want.
If a "good feeling" is the only purpose, then perhaps it could stay enabled in FC and WS, but not in AS/ES. One day in the dark future, 200.000 users will be bitten by an exploit in a service they didn't install and I'll say "what was it I said". Oh well...