Scot L. Harris said: [snip] > > One machine with a modem? How is that going to work? Let me rephrase. Only one machine on the network having a modem. If you only want to use the Internet on one machine you probably don't have a router, but might have other machines, printers, etc. that need zeroconf. > Has anybody actually used it? I just saw a post in HP's forums asking what Jet Direct devices are compatible. I think you will find a lot of small Apple networks relying on it. > I think at the very least it is something > that should be disabled if you have other IP addresses configured or better > yet, disabled until it is explicitly enabled. The goal of zeroconf is to have... well zero configuration. Having it enabled by default means it is available by default without any configuration. > I need to find time to run > some tests but I am wondering if someone could use those addresses to > access systems on an existing network and if so does it provide a way for > someone to evade various IDS's? I think if your firewall is allowing connections you don't want you have bigger problems. Nothing about zeroconf changes the basic TCP/IP. Again, to paraphrase http://www.zeroconf.org/, it just: a) finds an unused address b) allows you to do name resolution without a specific DNS server c) find out what other services are available. It's basically a better engineered version of Netbios over TCP/IP. -- William Hooper
