On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 12:58 PM Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 13:31, Richard Hughes <hughsient(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 16:27, Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> > It depends on the scanning from ports open to unknown shared files to 'why
did our network costs go up so much?'
>
> Surely if you're on a local network with bandwidth costs you'd turn
> off avahi or lock down the firewall? Lots of stuff blasts out mDNS
> traffic these days.
In the Windows world, you have a one-click which says 'I am on a metered line'
which is supposed to do things like that. I don't see anything like that on the Mac
but I am only 'learning' it now.
I just realized.. is avahi even on in a default install or would this be an extra service
needed to be turned on and 'configured' (not that avahi needs much configuring).
It isn't on my F38 box, but I have been living in it for a long time so it could be
something I did in the past or something I inherited from a long ago release.
It is default on Workstation and I believe most desktops