On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> 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). There is a larger 'zeroconf' context where if the request to a DHCP server times out, a node can assign itself something in the 169.254.0.0/16 range. Then: > mDNS is used to discover services using IP multicast. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com