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Re: minissdpd, why?

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On 2015-08-20, Roger Bell_West wrote:

> On 2015-08-20, Adam Funk wrote:
>>There doesn't seem to be much information on the WWW about this
>>service or what I would want to use it for.  Should I just disable the
>>daemon in '/etc/defaults/minissdpd', or remove the package?
>
> $ aptitude show minissdpd
>
>  MiniSSDPd is a small daemon used by MiniUPnPc (a UPnP control point
>  for IGD devices) to speed up device discoveries. MiniSSDPd keeps
>  memory of all UPnP devices that announced themselves on the network
>  through SSDP NOTIFY packets. MiniSSDPd also has the ability to handle
>  all SSDP traffic received on a computer via the multicast group
>  239.255.255.250:1900.
>
> So are you using UPnP? If not, you might as well purge that and
> miniupnpc, libminiupnpc8, python-miniupnpc, etc.

AFAICT, I'm not using UPnP, but I'm now wondering what all these
things are that it keeps discovering.


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minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-08-20 11:20 +0100
  Re: minissdpd, why? Roger Bell_West <roger+csrp201508@nospam.firedrake.org> - 2015-08-20 11:34 +0000
    Re: minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-08-21 15:40 +0100
      Re: minissdpd, why? Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-08-21 16:29 +0000
  Re: minissdpd, why? David <wibble@btintenet.com> - 2015-08-29 18:06 +0000
    Re: minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-09-09 16:24 +0100

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