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? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin