-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEWUZ0tTMYHG2NR9URAuwjAJ9VHNKZGAMpgdJsiU47MQyqU0MvQwCcCobV h7z7TZwrSSVGoGw1PjjL+FM= =YIzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----