Resolv local network names [Newbie question]

[Peter Dambier]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:43:10AM -0300,
>  Rafael Dewes <rafael.dws at gmail.com> wrote 
>  a message of 10 lines which said:
> 
> 
>>I have the machine 192.168.0.18 with the name
>>flamingo.mydomain.com.br. Can I setup it without configure a master
>>or slave server?
> 
> 
> Since LLMNR (RFC 4795) does not seem widely implemented (any BIND
> plans for it?), no, you cannot. Configuring an authoritative server is
> probably the best solution.
> 

I would not recomend LLMNR. It is incompatible with Bonyour and awahi.

Bonyour comes installed with every Mac.

awahi is default on Feodra Core 5 and higher. I have seen all newer
Linux releases do support it.

I am told there is a windows port too.

And BSD supports it.

Bonjour is RFC 2782


Kind regards
Peter and Karin

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