[Pkg-erlang-devel] Bug#585122: Comment on epmd binding behaviour

[Josef Spillner]

I'm in favour of including the loopback binding. This is a standard option for 
most daemons in Debian. Forcing the user to close open ports with a firewall 
when the user isn't interested in the port being open to begin with seems like 
a bad design to me. A file /etc/epmd.conf would also be useful to have.

In addition, port 4369 should be registered in /etc/services, as should all 
ports which are somehow opened by daemons in Debian. Finally, I also agree to 
the creation of an init script so that epmd can be shut down through the 
standard interface instead of sending signals.