I’ve been using zeroconf / bonjour / rendezvous for a while now . I don’t have a DNS server (it isn’t much use without static DHCP entries, which my linksys doesn’t do), so multicast DNS is a neat way to do the same job (if you said /etc/hosts, you lose). I could have built mDNSResponder [...]
Archives for zeroconf
.local hero
The other day I grumbled about the WRT54G lacking static DHCP and an embedded DNS server. So to shell into the the mac I first have to ping the network address to see what boxes are up, then shell into each of them in turn (telling them all my password if they ask, of course). [...]
