[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chmouel Boudjnah) writes: > --=-=-= > Name : tmdns Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 0.1 Vendor: MandrakeSoft
[...] > Summary : A Multicast DNS Responder for Linux I explain what this stuff does : User Joe has a litle network with 2 (or more) machines He install the machines with the latest and greatest Mandrake (cooker at this time) he name them pretty.home.com and flower.home.com He wants to connect between his machines but doen't want to bother to configure the IP adress his /etc/host (because he doen't like to type weird). He just do a : ping flower.local and out of the box it should resolv the name and all the machines see between each others. This is implementation of ZeroConf technologie (or RendezVous (c) Apple) under Linux. The implementation is currently in development. It works with MacosX.
