Re: hostname
Hi.
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:47:32AM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> > Linux/Unix hostname resolution is only done by consulting respected
> > services, not by everyone announcing themselves in broadcast mode.
> >
>
> Greg Wooledge, meet mDNS and avahi/Bonjour. (-:
>
> * http://multicastdns.org/
Technically Greg is right. Broadcast and multicast are two different
type of beasts. nDNS is a multicast (your link says the same btw).
Greg's talking about broadcasts.
Samba, on the other hand (winbind in particular) can broadcast a
hostname via udp:137.
Reco
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