[sent again, to the bugreport this time] Quoting Michael Stapelberg (2013-05-12 14:42:11) > Hi Jonas, > > Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> writes: > > I find it wrong (and from a privacy perspective unacceptable) to > > have a monitoring daemon by default also be a beacon towards the > > outside World. > I don’t understand what you mean by that. Could you be more explicit > please? In which way is kanla a beacon?
Whether or nor it succeeds in establishing an XMPP connection depends on the servers setup at that host. However even failed connection attempts essentially is does name lookup for and ping that domain. If you don't care about privacy then it is only wrong, not bad. > > Since there is a simple alternative of providing _no_ credentials > > instead of _bogus_ credentials, I propose to do that. > The default credentials have the user [email protected]. The domain > example.com was reserved by IANA in RFC 2606, see also > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com — it will never actually > point to some working jabber server. The credentials are just an > example, and will never make kanla actually connect to anywhere. The domain is reserved "for documentation purposes". Routers are not mandated to silence resolving that domain, as is the case with e.g. 192.168.x.x IP numbers. Please use example.com only for documentation purposes: In *example* files, not in default *production* files. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
