-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-01-02 at 00:47 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 02 January 2009 00:34:27 Carlos E. R. wrote:
I only know that I don't know what it does, what it changes or provides and for what programs, the effect it has...
So I ask.
As I said, it helps you set up a network without configuration. If you configure things yourself, or if you already have dhcp and dns from some other source, you don't need it. The same goes if you have special non-trivial needs for your lan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDNS
has a reasonably good explanation
Ok, lets have a look. ] Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconfig), is a set of techniques that ] automatically creates a usable IP network without configuration or ] special servers. ] ] This allows inexpert users to connect computers, networked printers, and ] other network devices and expect a functioning network to be established ] automatically. Without Zeroconfig, a user must either set up special ] services, like DHCP and DNS, or set up each computer's network settings I have both DHCP and DNS. ] manually, which may be challenging for non-technical or novice users. ] ] Zeroconfig currently provides these services: ] ] * Choose numeric network addresses for networked devices, (link-local ] address autoconfiguration) I don't need that, I set up my own Numbers. ] * Automatically resolve and distribute computer host names I set up my names, so I don't need it either. ] * Automatically locate network services, like printing (service ] discovery) Nay, when I configured my printer YaST couldn't find it. I had to tell it where it was. Anyway, the firewall has most ports closed... So, I think I do not need them; I'll try disabling both daemons (avahi-dnsconfd and avahi-daemon) for the moment. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkldXNsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WMFACfZbswbEcW3/CECYBoBThJmaDa JrwAnjXB1Pqe2i9ki72DZO1X/RGR9/Lv =ePMU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org