On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:11, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:55, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > If you disable zeroconf the 169.254 entry is dropped. What use is it? > > Nothing I have found explains what it is used for or why I need it on my > > systems. Waving your hands and saying don't be bothered by the > > existence of such entries does not explain what it is used for. Getting > > rid of it does not impact the systems either. Kind of like an appendix. > > :) > > The idea is that you can plug machines into a local network and have > them talk to each other with no setup and no preconfigured DHCP service. > Each picks some more-or-less random and hopefully unique address in > this subnet. Windows boxes will do it if a DHCP request times out. > Machines can find and access each other by name with broadcast based > naming like netbios or dns over multicast like rendezvous. I understand what it is suppose to do. But as far as I can tell it has never been used. Has anyone actually used zeroconf for this? Other than to test it to see if it actually works?