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by yjftsjthsd-h 69 days ago
I like the ability to

  ping somehostname
on the local network and have it work (where ping can be any command or browser). That's easy with DHCP+DNS, and either impossible or amazingly ugly with DLAAC.
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9dev 69 days ago
It’s a no-brainer with SLAAC and mDNS, which is what pretty much all home routers do out of the box.
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yjftsjthsd-h 69 days ago
That's an extra service or two running on every device with extra configuration, and... Maybe it's more reliable now? I vaguely recall having a bad time.

What does the router do out of the box, or at all, for mdns? Isn't it a p2p service?

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