On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gordon Messmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd.
>
> No, DHCP is used to assign network addresses and routes (and other
> optional configuration items).
There is a larger 'zeroconf' context where if the request to a DHCP
server times out, a node can assign itself something in the
169.254.0.0/16 range. Then:
> mDNS is used to discover services using IP multicast.
--
Les Mikesell
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