Re: Image burn programs, Was: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/6/24 05:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: balenaetcher is purported to be smart enough to write an .iso and make it bootable. But no surprise, I dl the latest version and run it, select the iso file and it refuses to proceed to selecting the target device to write it to.

Image burn programs, Was: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > balenaetcher is purported to be smart enough to write an .iso and make it > bootable. But no surprise, I dl the latest version and run it, select the > iso file and it refuses to proceed to selecting the target device to write > it to. Maybe it thinks too much over the e

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/6/24 02:04, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 11:49:37PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] It is part of Microsoft's promise that anyone can be sysadmin [...] Isn't that what modern networking is striving t

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-05 Thread tomas
On Mon, Aug 05, 2024 at 11:49:37PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > It is part of Microsoft's promise that anyone can be sysadmin [...] > Isn't that what modern networking is striving to attain? Whoever "modern networking" i

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-05 Thread David Wright
On Sat 03 Aug 2024 at 11:26:38 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:56:42PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > What is the purpose of mDNS ?  > > > >  It seems to be for multicast?   > > It is not /for/ multicast IP, it /uses/ multicast for name

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On 03/08/2024 21:08, Lee wrote: On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread Lee
On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 6:51 AM George at Clug wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the purpose of mDNS ? "zero-configuration networking" seems to be the search term eg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) > It seems to be for multicast? no, it _uses_ multic

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/8/24 18:35, George at Clug wrote: Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread George at Clug
Thanks for your comments, Tomas and Jeremy. George On Saturday, 03-08-2024 at 19:43 jeremy ardley wrote: > > > On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. > > In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local netw

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread jeremy ardley
On 3/8/24 17:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: It is not/for/ multicast IP, it/uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request to the local network asking "who is called Fritz here?", and Fritz answers with its IP. So sys-non- admins don't have to set up a name ser

Re: What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread tomas
On Sat, Aug 03, 2024 at 06:56:42PM +1000, George at Clug wrote: > Hi, > > > What is the purpose of mDNS ?  > > >  It seems to be for multicast?   It is not /for/ multicast IP, it /uses/ multicast for name resolution. In a nutshell [1], it sends a "DNS" request t

What is the purpose of mDNS

2024-08-03 Thread George at Clug
Hi, What is the purpose of mDNS ?   It seems to be for multicast?   Does that mean its usage would be to say send video to a group of workstations all at the same time?  Like a corporate wide message from the CEO?   What other use?   It does not seem to be a unicast DNS system. That is a