iptables?

Knute Johnson knute at frazmtn.com
Sun Dec 18 05:08:16 UTC 2005


Thanks Chris.

knute...

>Knute Johnson wrote:
>
>>My stock desktop FC4 has a chain in it to allow UDP on 224.0.0.251
>>port 5353.  Any idea what that is for?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>  
>>
>The mDNSResponder service, providing multicast DNS which is used by
>MACs for zeroconf service discovery aka rendezvous. If you don't need
>rendezvous then you don't need the iptables rule, nor the
>mDNSResponder and nifd services.
>
>Chris
>
>-- 
>   "Spend less!  Do more!  Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net
>   Chris Johnson, RHCE #804005699817957
>
>
>

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Knute Johnson
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