Guest ump Posted March 10, 2003 Report Share Posted March 10, 2003 Just trying to get a better understanding of what Zeroconf is supposed to do. I guess I understand the basics like no need to configure networks? I guess I am trying to understand the inplacations of this in future releases. Has anyone hear used it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 zeroconf was developed to simplify name resolution and IP addressing on small networks that can't justify the effort of implementing DHCP and DNS etc. It works by each machine answering DNS requests for it's own name, and using private IP address space, with each machine auto-allocating it's address, after checking that no other machine is using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 zeroconf was developed to simplify name resolution and IP addressing on small networks that can't justify the effort of implementing DHCP and DNS etc. It works by each machine answering DNS requests for it's own name, and using private IP address space, with each machine auto-allocating it's address, after checking that no other machine is using it. On small networks say 5-20 work stations how is this better than host files and statically assigned ips? Or is it for larger networks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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