Hello Dan, Dan Groves wrote: > Hi Rishi, > > Rishi Srivatsavai wrote: >> Administration & Configuration: >> >> To enable/disable service advertisement of an inetd managed service >> using mDNS, administrators should use the inetadm(1M) tool to modify the >> value of the new service advertised property: 'inetd/advertised'. The >> new boolean property 'advertised' in the property group 'inetd' is >> introduced by this proposed work for services controlled by the inetd >> restarter. The new property indicates whether the service should be >> advertised using mDNS. The property value is of type boolean and is >> false by default. inetadm(1M) will be updated to support modifying and >> listing this new property. ftp and telnet services will have the >> property set to 'true'. Setting the property to 'true' does not >> guarantee the service is advertised. The mDNS service on Solaris must be >> enabled and online before services on the machine are advertised. Any >> inetd.conf(4) entries converted by inetconv(1M) to SMF services have the >> service advertised property value initially set to 'false'. >> > > You say that the property "advertised" will be false by default, and > then say that it will be true for ftp and telnet. So those two > services are an exception? Will the service itself still be disabled > by default? > Yes ftp and telnet services have the 'advertised' property turned on which means ftp and telnet services are advertised via mDNS when either ftp or telnet is enabled on the system. Changing the "advertised" property does not change the service 'run' state. If telnet was disabled prior to changing the 'advertised' property then telnet will remain disabled.
Thanks, Rishi
