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.
>--
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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