Kristian, IMHO, if you include bonjour broadcasts, it should always be off by default. If an integrator wishes to turn them on, fine.
I am a huge fan of Mac OS X, but rendezvous/bonjour has always been a pain for me. It doesn't work across subnets, it doesn't work through a VPN; maybe "AstLinux PBX.local" works in Safari, but don't expect it to work in my IP phones. IP address always work, and users should learn how to use them. Call me old fashioned. Lonnie On Dec 18, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Hello everyone, > > In response to a recent thread discussing some of the difficulties in > "finding" a recently installed AstLinux machine on a network, I > started > researching the best way to advertise the services that are typically > offered with an AstLinux system. > > This lead me, naturally, to rendezvous/bonjour. This is a fantastic > protocol that allows you to advertise all types of protocols and > various > service parameters. > > As of now in astlinux-trunk, AstLinux will advertise the following > services: > > - SIP > - IAX > - HTTP > - HTTPS > - SSH > - NTP > > with a default advertise name of "AstLinux PBX". As usual, you can > disable this behavior (or change the advertised name), with a simple > change to rc.conf (the variable name is ADNAME). > > AstLinux 0.5 (when released) will advertise all of these services > "out > of the box" to help users get started. I do recommend that once you > have located the machine and configured it you disable the advertise > service as it does consume resources and open your system to possible > security threats. > > This is really pretty cool... I just flashed a Soekris, booted it > up, > and my laptop (running Ubuntu) notified me of the new services > available > on my network. I clicked on AstLinux PBX SIP, and the Ekiga softphone > that was installed by default made a SIP call to the system and within > seconds, I was hearing the default Asterisk demo. > > A new drop down box was available on my GNOME toolbar. One of the > options was to login via SSH into the AstLinux PBX. I clicked on > this, > and I was prompted for a password. I entered the default password > and I > was sitting at the command prompt for the AstLinux system. Same thing > goes for the web interface using HTTPS. Awesome! > > As always, any comments, testing, (even flames) are appreciated. Let > me know what you think! > > -- > Kristian Kielhofner > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
