On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 6:00 AM Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Printers are plug 'n play these days. There is no manual configuration > needed, unless your PCs and/or router configurations do not use zeroconf/mDNS. >
I don't think that routers need to do anything to support mDNS - I think it is purely a P2P sort of thing. Maybe if the router picks up on mDNS and runs its own DNS resolver and bridges the two it might add value, but I doubt that is a normal thing. I'm not sure if you can even do that with software on Linux (I mean, it should be possible, but I don't think it has been implemented and there could be good reasons not to). mDNS needs to be supported more on the PC side. Note that while most desktop-oriented distros support it by default, it isn't part of the base Gentoo install (which is fairly minimal). I don't think the desktop profile pulls it in either by default (maybe we should think about changing that). Getting it running on Gentoo is very simple though: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Avahi -- Rich
