Interop with Windows zeroconf/LLMNR

[Shay Gover]

As hardening maybe.
Windows users don't venture into the services area. PC technicians don't
either.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> Even if it's up by default, which seems to be the case at least for some
> Windows versions, I still want to know from people's experience, how common
> it is to have someone shut it down.
> Is it a good practice?
> Are organization do that as a security hardening measure?
> Etc.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Shay Gover <govershay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Once upon a time I was a Windows sysadmin. Anyway, there was a nice site,
>> called blackviper.com that listed windows services default state.
>> However it's appears it's down now. Maybe tomorrow it'll be up?
>>
>> Shay
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It's really convenient that two Linux computers usuallly have mDNS
>>> installed by default.
>>> I can then do scp x moshe.local, to my friend's laptop.
>>>
>>> In order for that to work with Windows, one can enable Window's zeroconf
>>> standard, LLMNR. The easiest way is by configuring systemd-resolved to
>>> support LLMNR.
>>>
>>> Alas, when I did that, two Windows laptop I examined had LLMNR turned
>>> off. The owners were not sure why.
>>>
>>> Can anyone estimate why this happened?
>>>
>>> Is LLMNR really a good way to interop with Windows, or would half of the
>>> Windows machine would have it turned off?
>>>
>>> Anyone has experience with that?
>>>
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