Re: Zeroconf Debian?
On Friday 08 August 2003 00:54, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a
> > paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of
> > Zeroconf[1].
>
> My experience of Rendezvous has been that it is a network-thrashing
> traffic generator, which *has* to be disabled on a network of any
> significant size, just to stop it from flooding everything else out.
>
> Please be careful never to ship packages in a state which do this by
> default; I can't count the number of hours I've wasted just turning
> that stuff off. There's got to be a better solution.
It's not MEANT for a network of any size. It is intended for home and very
small office users who do not have admins or who do not want to admin.
If you have an admin who has properly setup DNS, DHCP, etc zeroconf has little
practical use.
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