On 03/16/2012 02:02 PM, AJ ONeal wrote: > I thought the whole point of mDNS was for a device on a network to be able > to advertise itself so that you can go to `ping foo-device.local` and get > it's IP address. > > For example, I've got a Western Digital WorldBook that I access from any > computer on the network as `big-guy.local`. > > ... maybe I should just reboot it and wireshark its network traffic.
I think what you are seeing with your Western Digital WorldBook is that your router is adding an entry to dnsmasq when the WorldBook does its dhcp req/ack. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
