Re: Assorted arm-buster problems - network configuration
On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 16:17:11 -0400, Lee wrote:
> On 7/5/19, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 05 Jul 2019 at 04:33:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday 04 July 2019 16:42:11 Brian wrote:
> >>
> >> > If nobody objects I would like to reword that statement. Many, many
> >> > users will have avahi-daemon on their systems; a few won't. The idea
> >> > that
> >> >
> >> > > Not installing this software in the first place works even better.
> >> >
> >> > requires clarification.
> >>
> >> Aha! Took several more hours but I found the SOB screwing my static
> >> network! Soooo....
> >
> > I was rather hoping someone would clarify why not having avahi-daemon
> > in the first place was a good thing in general.
>
> avahi-daemon is the thing that does multicast dns - right? I think
> using mDNS is an accident waiting to happen. The other viewpoint
> would be RFC 6762:
>
> 1. Introduction
>
> Multicast DNS and its companion technology DNS-Based Service
> Discovery [RFC6763] were created to provide IP networking with the
> ease-of-use and autoconfiguration for which AppleTalk was well-known
> [RFC6760].
Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of
ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong technical grounds but by
an appeal to tradition and emotion.
--
Brian.
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