Hi. On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:47:32AM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > > Linux/Unix hostname resolution is only done by consulting respected > > services, not by everyone announcing themselves in broadcast mode. > > > > Greg Wooledge, meet mDNS and avahi/Bonjour. (-: > > * http://multicastdns.org/
Technically Greg is right. Broadcast and multicast are two different type of beasts. nDNS is a multicast (your link says the same btw). Greg's talking about broadcasts. Samba, on the other hand (winbind in particular) can broadcast a hostname via udp:137. Reco
