At 2:49 PM -0500 11/22/04, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Actually, I do set up static addresses. I'd use DHCP, but if I did that
I would not be able to refer to the machines on my local net by name.
Until my DHCP client can update my DNS tables with name information
on the fly, I'll keep doing doing it this way. Apple's zeroconf
technology solves this problem, albeit in a slightly different way,
but Linux doesn't deploy it yet.
I don't think my situation is unique.
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It isn't...I do exactly the same thing since Rendezvous(Apple's
zeroconf) doesn't quite work across our mix of resources...
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