[CentOS] Is avahi essential?
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Jan 14 12:29:05 UTC 2012
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
More information about the CentOS
mailing list