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On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 6:00 AM Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Printers are plug 'n play these days. There is no manual configuration |
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> needed, unless your PCs and/or router configurations do not use zeroconf/mDNS. |
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I don't think that routers need to do anything to support mDNS - I |
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think it is purely a P2P sort of thing. Maybe if the router picks up |
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on mDNS and runs its own DNS resolver and bridges the two it might add |
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value, but I doubt that is a normal thing. I'm not sure if you can |
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even do that with software on Linux (I mean, it should be possible, |
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but I don't think it has been implemented and there could be good |
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reasons not to). |
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mDNS needs to be supported more on the PC side. Note that while most |
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desktop-oriented distros support it by default, it isn't part of the |
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base Gentoo install (which is fairly minimal). I don't think the |
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desktop profile pulls it in either by default (maybe we should think |
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about changing that). Getting it running on Gentoo is very simple |
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though: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Avahi |
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Rich |
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