[Gllug] openoffice takes 6min to start on P4?

[Paul Nasrat]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:17:10PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 14:52, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> 
> > ---snip-lots of output--------------------------------------------------------
> > 10:57:04 connect(20, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), 
> > sin_addr=inet_addr("169.254.168.9")}, 16
> And not just Macs - any PC which can't get a valid DHCP lease.

It's the address range for link level discovery - zeroconf

http://files.zeroconf.org/draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal.txt

There is a linux userspace implementation of this:

http://zeroconf.sourceforge.net/ and I know that Mandrake have started
shipping zcip and initscripts which can fall back to link level
discovery.  

Paul

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