I remember Ubuntu's decision to abandon its original "no open ports in the default install" policy for the sake of zeroconf/mdns was controversial at the time.

I remember Ubuntu's decision to abandon its original "no open ports in the default install" policy for the sake of zeroconf/mdns was controversial at the time. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZeroConfPolicySpec https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZeroConfPolicySpec https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-July/019137.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-July/019...