On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 13:31, Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 16:27, Stephen Smoogen <ssmoogen@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.
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