Re: ORBit2 & libbonobo ...

[Eric Kidd <eric kidd pobox com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:33:41AM -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 	To use oaf with ORBit2, you will also need to put:
> 
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> 
> 	in your ~/.orbitrc, at least until we can eliminate what seems
> to be a nasty race condition with Unix sockets.

*Please* try to figure out this race condition before the next major
release.

When ORBIIOPIPv4 is active, ORBit will listen to public TCP ports.  And
there's a *lot* of code between packet arrival and packet authentication in
ORBit, so not everybody trusts it.  And some sites have a security policy
that disallows this configuration.

Thank you for listening to these concerns!

Cheers,
Eric