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On Thursday 30 June 2005 12:03, Tony Hoyle wrote: > Tru64 is pretty nightmarish (due to its extremelly buggy C library, and > inconsistent.. no.. totally random header files). Random header files are such fun. > HPUX took months to get right... Ah, HPUX. > I can't see what it offers over DHCP - I think they're onto a loser > there... I think the idea was that it would be useful in the rare situations where there is no DHCP, or when you plug two hosts directly together. > > I guess one problem is lack of application support for ZeroConf... all > > the stuff I've seen seems concerned with just enumerating what > > printers/http/ftp hosts are available... which is a bit useless since I > > can already get all that info using SNMP or a quick portscan of my LAN > > ;-) > > It's useful for services to find each other (like cvsnt) but there > aren't that many services that *need* to find each other. The only think I can think of is that it can be used to set the default settings when initially configuring a service. > Gnome has support built into its vfs (network://) for finding ftp and > web servers. I'd a KDE man myself. > I'll probably change the 'recommended protocol' to 'default protocol' > and put options to set it... the idea is that a client will eventually > be able to do something like: > > cvs -d cvs.cvsnt.org co cvsnt > > And not need to know anything about the server itself, because it's all > autodiscovered. > > On a LAN it should be possible to just do > > cvs -d . co cvsnt > > and it'll find the nearest server, connect to its default repository and > do the checkout. This is great for things like automation... not to > mention frontends that can reduce their cvsroot dialogs to a big red > 'CLICK HERE' button... That does sound like an excellent way to do things. Though I'm not sure I like "-d ." ... maybe "-d *" would be better (since * is generally asociated with ALL/ANY). (What about the password... will it use blank or the same as the anon username?) > Put mdns=yes in the service registration file... I'm told it works on > the latest version (I still run the original inetd so can't check). Looks like xinetd only compiles this in when it finds Apple's Rendezvous/Bonjour and not Howl... :( -- David Somers VoIP: FWD 622885 PGP Key Fingerprint