[Klug-general] Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs

[Shish]

> Erm zeroconf? Microsofts name for the protocol, sits exactly with the
> apple bonjour and avahi specs.

Um, no. Zeroconf *is* the specs, and nothing to do with microsoft :P

It's split into 3 parts; finding an unused address, finding names for
local addresses, and finding services on each host. Under zeroconf,
these are IPv4LL, mDNS, and DNS-SD.

Apple's Bonjour and open source's Avahi are both zeroconf based (IPv4LL
+ mDNS + DNS-SD), whereas microsoft use IPv4LL, and then put UPnP and
SSDP on top (their own similar, but incompatible equivalents to mDNS
and DNS-SD -- just like I guessed :P)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play


So to the original point, what you're probably seeing is that the vista
boxes are talking to eachother with UPnP and SSDP. I would guess that
they don't show up in ping broadcasts because of firewalling

    -- Shish