On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 15:19, William Hooper wrote: > 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. > No wonder I have not heard of its use in the real world. :) > > 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. > I don't believe it is getting through the firewall. Is the address range they default to routable on the Internet? I would hope this would be non-routable address space like RFC 1918. > 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. > I knew there was reason I did not like it. :) > -- > William Hooper -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
