It might also have a little zeroconf stack in it. In a hard drive, you could pull the name you advertise from the volume name, or maybe an autorun utility or something. My point is that there is not a standard way. On Mar 16, 2012 5:44 PM, "Michael Torrie" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
