Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 13:28 +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? There

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. My experience of Rendezvous has been that it is a network-thrashing

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 08 August 2003 00:54, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. My experience

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff?

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: If you have an admin who has properly setup DNS, DHCP, etc zeroconf has little practical use. Maybe not zeroconf, but somewhat-less-than-100%-manually-conf is good. Consider printers, for instance. The home user wants to see printers without configuring them.

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:44:18PM +1000, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? There is already a project for zeroconf [1]. And a debian source package [2]. There is also a paper [3] presented at lca2003 [4] by Brad Hards.

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:34:05AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: If you have an admin who has properly setup DNS, DHCP, etc zeroconf has little practical use. Maybe not zeroconf, but somewhat-less-than-100%-manually-conf is good. Consider printers, for instance. The home user

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:34:05AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Consider printers, for instance. The home user wants to see printers without configuring them. The large-office admin, on the other hand, might want the reverse, i.e. to have printers NOT show up when they're NOT there. ZC can

Re: Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:33:10AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 00:54, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 01:28:15PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous

Zeroconf Debian?

2003-08-07 Thread Andrew Pollock
I'm currently at the SAGE-AU annual conference, and Apple presented a paper about their Rendezvous technology, which is their implementation of Zeroconf[1]. Is anyone working on getting Debian to do any of this sort of stuff? If not, I might look into spinning off a subproject. I don't think