brien dieterle wrote:
> Has anyone tried using mdns//bonjour for clients? Macs have it enabled
> by default, most linux distros have it, although not enabled, and you
> can download it for Windows... Then you wouldn't have to do anything
> special; they'd be normal dns lookups-- fred.local, etc.
That's a local-lan only thing, more or less like netbios broadcasts so
it won't help if you need to cross routers. My opinion is that anything
that has data worth backing up should have a static address, but that
isn't always possible to arrange especially for laptops.
--
Les Mikesell
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