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Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 3/18/2010 3:55 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> I think avahi is a KDE thing. I don't really know what zeroconf is. If |
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>> I recall correctly, some package said it had to have that so I turned it |
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>> on. No clue what it is even after looking up the definition with euse. |
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>> May as well be Greek. ;-) |
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> Zeroconf is a set of technologies that are supposed to generate a fully |
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> working IP network with no user or operator intervention. It includes |
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> three basic parts: link-local network config (e.g. IPv4LL), distribution |
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> hostname resolution (multicast DNS), and automatic service and device |
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> discovery (DNS service discovery). |
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> Used in the context of applications or services, you're usually talking |
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> specifically about the autodiscovery portion, which allows applications |
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> to find services and network devices automatically. It was primarily |
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> invented at Apple, who developed mDNS and DNS-SD, and is built into OS X |
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> as Bonjour. |
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> Avahi is just a free-software implementation of Bonjour (which was |
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> originally under the not-entirely-free Apple Public License), and from |
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> what I've read has practically overtaken Bonjour in terms of performance |
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> and features. |
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> Back onto the topic at hand: emerging cups with +zeroconf allows it to |
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> respond to service discovery requests. By default CUPS uses |
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> mDNSResponder, which is Apple's implementation; with +avahi is uses |
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> avahi instead. This means any Mac on your network will automatically |
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> see CUPS printers, as will any Linux client with avahi properly |
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> installed. Windows machines with iTunes or Safari installed probably |
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> have Bonjour as well, so they'd also benefit. |
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> On a side-note: CUPS 1.4 stopped supporting Avahi and only supports |
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> Apple's implementation, so the Gentoo devs have disabled zeroconf |
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> support completely until CUPS 1.5 (or whatever) brings back native Avahi |
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> support. |
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> --Mike |
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Thanks for the corrections. I thought it was a KDE thing because KDE |
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pulled it in on here. It appears to have more than one use. That's good. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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