On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Michael B Allen <ioplex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Disclaimer - this is all wild speculation. But think about it - why > did Apple need mDNS? They needed mDNS so that OSX (and later iPhones > and iPads) could find your home printer over the wireless router even > if the printer IP changed. Not just wireless routers. And not just printers. File servers too. I've forgotten the exact invocations but you can browse for all sorts of "services," like ssh or http, with "avahi-browse" on Linux and "dns-sd -B" on macOS. > If I had to *guess*, I would say that mDNS was introduced with OSX > which was maybe 2001? Did wireless routers use .local before that? Did > the old WRT54G use .local? That was maybe 2002. Apple introduced Bonjour as RendezVous in 2002. It was renamed later because of a lawsuit. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
