[CentOS] Is avahi essential?

[Timothy Murphy]

Gordon Messmer wrote:

> On 01/11/2012 03:42 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd.
> 
> No, DHCP is used to assign network addresses and routes (and other
> optional configuration items).

According to the Wikipedia entry for mDNS,
"Using mDNS allows to determine the IP address of a host 
without the help of a centralized DNS server".

Isn't that more or less what I said above?

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