On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:10AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > 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. Which is why it is amazingly annoying that every MacOSX system comes with Rendezvous enabled out of the box. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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