mDNS & 224.0.0.251

[Dake K. Odzangba]

On Monday 16 February 2009 02:42:43 Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Dake K. Odzangba <odzangba at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Hello, I noticed this strange ip address: 224.0.0.251 when I was
> > reviewing
>
> Caused by avahi.  Here is a blog post about it:
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/zeroconf-ubuntu
>
> Basically, avahi is trying to "auto-discover" resources on the network
> - in the blog post, the developer makes the case that it's similar to
> DHCP: IE, it's technically an open port, but it's useful enough to
> allow.
>
> Chris

Thanks
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