On Wednesday 29 August 2007 23:19, Joey Hess wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > It obviously didn't work, and appears that > > if a script is in /etc/init.d, and there are no links to it in the > > runlevel directories, the script is run anyway. > > I think that avahi may be started by /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, > when a network interface is brought up. I'd suggest editing > /etc/default/avahi-daemon. > > BTW, there's a persuasive argument that wanting to disable avahi/mDNS to > improve your system's security is similar to wanting to disable DNS or > DHCP to improve your systems's security. > <http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/zeroconf-ubuntu>
Thanks Joey. I've changed it from 1 to 0 in /etc/default/avahi-daemon, and no more messages now. I've also looked at the link you gave. It's a bit late, and will look at it again tomorrow. My 2 machines are on a LAN which access the Internet through my Smoothwall firewall, via a serial modem. As far as I know I havn't been compromised, and being on dialup I'm obviously not running webservers, ftpservers, mailservers, etc, accessable to the Internet. if I was able to, they would be in a DMZ obviously. I'm not being complacent about security. When anything a bit weird happens, I'm always a bit suspicious. Thanks for your help. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
