Timothy Murphy wrote: > William Warren wrote: > >>>> Avahi is a mdns daemon. You can safely disable it in most cases. > >>> But what applications use mdns? >>> >>> As far as I can see, it is some sort of rival to dhcpd. >>> Is it only used within local LANs? >>> Is it used, for example, by CUPS to identify printers? >>> When, if ever, would it be used in a home network? >>> >> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mdns >> <http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=mdns> > > I had looked up mdns on google, which is what you seem to be suggesting. > But it did not give me an answer to my query above. > Which URL did you think answered this?
maybe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
