On Monday 18 December 2006 4:42 pm, Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > > 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 > > Lonnie, > > The idea is that it would help users to locate a system when it is > initially provisioned. After that, they should turn it off (for all of > the reasons you mentioned, and more). > > Until SIP phones support it, there really isn't much reason to leave it > turned on.
When I'm setting up a new headless box, I do it from my special network administrator's laptop so I can keep the new box off the LAN until it has been sufficiently pummeled and approved for service. It's an old unkillable Thinkpad R32 with all the utilities a network admin could ever dream of needing, plus a few extra things for just in case. It sniffs and snorts and probes and rescues, and it has a complete Linux build environment. I even have windoze xp on it for those rare occasions when it's actually useful for some kind of testing. It doesn't have a DB9 serial port, the cheapskates, so I use a usb-to-db9 adapter. It has onboard wireless and wired ethernet, and when I want to do fun stuff like plug in behind a router to sniff everything coming over the wire I stuff an Ethernet PC card into it and go to work. With this one little laptop I can diagnose and fix just about anything anywhere. Or at least as much as I'm smart enough to figure out. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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]
