Quoting Hendrik Boom ([email protected]): > But why, why, is a browser listening on a socket that's used for printer > discovery? Is the browser acting as a printer proxy for everyone on the LAN? > This particular dumbness appears to all about ability to broadcast your desktop over Google Cast (sometimes called ChromeCast), which uses Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) and mDNS. See, you only _thought_ you wanted to decide what network services are chatting mindlessly to the world by default. Google, Inc. knows better than you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cast But you can indeed turn that sucker off, you ingrate. ;-> https://www.vastorigins.com/2019/01/disable-mdns-and-ssdp-discovery-in.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
