[KLUG Members] SuSE, Zeroconf, and the 'local' Domain

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:17:15 -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:
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>As for other software making assumptions, that's exactly what it should 
>NOT be doing. I think Bob would have a word or two to say about this, if 
>he could spare the time to comment.

Not much specific to add to this, but I tire of vendors being "helpful" 
without providing the switches required to turn the "help" off when it's 
not warranted. Of late I've become enamored of lines like:

route del -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0

in rc.local, whenever I set up a system. You can tell I've been doing
rather too much of the above, as that linewas typed from memory :)

I don't use .local as a LAN TLD, but there's no reason why a distro
must co-opt that (or anything). If they want to provide that as a 
service, a clearly documented and defined method of turning it off is
really nessesary.

It is only with a kind of monopolistic arrogance that these kinds of
services are provided woithout recourse, saince they imply that they
are in fact standards, and that only distro-homogeneous networks are
acceptable.
						Regards,
						---> RGB <---