From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:31:45 +0000 (+0000) Subject: reword NEWS file a little X-Git-Url: https://git.meshlink.io/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1411a742fadc5de81fde4677ec16aae41f9e3b72;p=catta reword NEWS file a little git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@1326 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe --- diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS index fe561a5..212d157 100644 --- a/docs/NEWS +++ b/docs/NEWS @@ -6,15 +6,17 @@ This release fixes some bugs and includes a new component. Changes: * Add new daemon "avahi-autoipd" which is an implementation of - IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927. While it is not the first - implemenatation of this technology for Free operating systems it - is clearly the most powerful and hopefully even the most - secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops priviliges and suchlike) - For more information, especially about packaging this new tool for - distributions, please make sure to read: + IPv4LL as defined in RFC3927, a technology for assigning link-local IP + addresses without DHCP server. The same functionality has been available on + Windows under the name APIPA. While it is not the first implemenatation of + this technology for Free operating systems it is clearly the most powerful + and hopefully even the most secure. (Because it chroot()s and drops + priviliges and suchlike) For more information, especially about packaging + this new tool for distributions, please make sure to read: http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd - For the rationale for adding this program to the Avahi toolset - please read this mailing list thread: + and of course the man page included in the tarball. For the rationale for + adding this program to the Avahi toolset please read this mailing list + thread: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-September/000863.html * Fix a segfault in the code handling static host name registrations * Add a few new entries to the service type database