On Sat 29 Aug 2015 at 14:25:17 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Sat, August 29, 2015 2:01 pm, Brian wrote: > > There is much value in mDNS in an office network with CUPS nowadays. > > Simply out of custom and the influence of the guru who helped me get > started in Debian, I use static ip addresses for everything (including the > printer) in my LAN, except the laptop. And I routinely connect the laptop > with ethernet, rather than via WiFi. > > And every time I install or reinstall Debian on a machine, one of the > first things I do is configure CUPS to use the laser as the default > printer for the machine. In view of the fact that the configuration of > CUPS takes only two or three minutes, I do not enable sharing of the > printer. And all my printing is done locally, on the laser printer. > > So I do not understand how avahi or mDNS could benefit me with this tiny > personal LAN. If it is something which I should be using, please > enlighten me.
mDNS does nothing nothing for local printers which are not shared. If you think it has no benefit for you in that situation you are correct. But your question was about taking your laptop onto a foreign network. Which goalposts do you want to aim for? What is your point if we take this into account?
