Comment 1 for bug 619332
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| Miika Komu (miika-iki) wrote Re: Fall-back mechanism failure | #1 |
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I disagree with it being useless. For beginners, it's easy to try HIP in a local network without any hosts configuration by pinging a HIT. Also, I think it's better fail by trying to do something than just to fail and do nothing. IPsec doesn't return error messages that fast to the application anyway, right?
If you want to "get rid of broadcasting", I would suggest to make a configuration option and make the default "off". I don't think it's useless.
The thing with fuse is probably a separate topic and may deserve a bug of its own. Hipd usually drops root privileges to "nobody" (check this with "ps"). Does nobody has access privileges to the hosts file?