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Re: [SLE] dns / mdns funny business on .local domain
- From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 02:10:26 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605040206260.10633@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2006-05-04 at 01:55 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> Rather than just turning it off because you don't know what it is, I
> >> suggest you try and find out a bit about mdns because it can be very
> >> useful !
> >
> > SuSE says it is a "mDNSresponder to handle Apple Rendezvous requests".
> >
> > As I don't have ane Apple, it is useless. Or is SuSE lying and it does
> > some other things for non apple machines?
>
> SUSE is not lying ;-). Such requests can just be done by non-apple
> machines as well, the protocoll is just called "Apple Rendezvous"
> AFAIK.
I was trying to be sarcastic, but forgot to put a :-p somewhere. But the
description in the init script is misleading, it doesn't match the daemon
man page.
> See:
> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/
Another reading to my 'todo' list. So little time!
>
> You can safely turn it off if you don't know what it is,
I did... as I run my local dns, I don't need dns discovery.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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The Thursday 2006-05-04 at 01:55 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >> Rather than just turning it off because you don't know what it is, I
> >> suggest you try and find out a bit about mdns because it can be very
> >> useful !
> >
> > SuSE says it is a "mDNSresponder to handle Apple Rendezvous requests".
> >
> > As I don't have ane Apple, it is useless. Or is SuSE lying and it does
> > some other things for non apple machines?
>
> SUSE is not lying ;-). Such requests can just be done by non-apple
> machines as well, the protocoll is just called "Apple Rendezvous"
> AFAIK.
I was trying to be sarcastic, but forgot to put a :-p somewhere. But the
description in the init script is misleading, it doesn't match the daemon
man page.
> See:
> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/
Another reading to my 'todo' list. So little time!
>
> You can safely turn it off if you don't know what it is,
I did... as I run my local dns, I don't need dns discovery.
- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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