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> This is such a pet-peeve for me. A noisy network service... Complaints like this about mDNS are my pet peeve. Back in the day networks were 1000 times slower

> This is such a pet-peeve for me. A noisy network service... Complaints like this about mDNS are my pet peeve. Back in the day networks were 1000 times slower and we had Appletalk and dynamic peer-to-peer LAN networking was absolutely effortless. It was plug-and-play, networking-for-dummies easy. And nobody had to explain to their Mom over the phone what an IP address was. But Appletalk was chatty and that bugged people with large enterprise LANs. So Apple turned it off and invented mDNS which was less chatty and used modern DNS protocols. It made LAN setup about half as easy as Appletalk but by that time everybody had gotten used to typing IP addresses into their printers as if that was "normal." Or they just gave up on peer-to-peer connections entirely. So now not many people use mDNS and it's not nearly as chatty as Appletalk and our networks are 1000 times faster and a tiny bit of LAN traffic is nothing; nothing compared to the value mDNS would bring if people just used it. But no. Let's complain about how chatty it is and continue using LANs full of multi-teraflop computers that have no way to ask their neighbors what their damned IP addresses are. Yes I'm bitter.

badrabbit 6y ago
Look, I will never ever use mDNS. I have never ever needed to use mDNS because I don't mind using an IP address. We have our preferences but why are you forcing your preference on people? I am very bitter about this too. I turn on a computer and it broadcasts excessive details about itself to anyone that will listen to it.it does things I did not ask it to do and refuses to do things I need it to do because people like you think there is one way everyone should do things. What on earth is stopping you from turning on Avahi and using mDNS right now? Clicking on a checkbox in system settings? What else is there to it? I will continue to complain on how chatty this and a plethora of other things are. Actually their chattiness is not the issue, the fact that they sent even one packet of that protocol is my issue, or more importantly that they listened on that port offerinf network services on my client computer. So, now when there's a vulnerability abusing that service, a service no one uses, well too bad then right? A network service is an exposure, people/apps should opt into not opt out of exposures!

badrabbit 6y ago

Look, I will never ever use mDNS. I have never ever needed to use mDNS because I don't mind using an IP address. We have our preferences but why are you forcing your preference on people? I am very bitter about this too. I turn on a computer and it broadcasts excessive details about itself to anyone that will listen to it.it does things I did not ask it to do and refuses to do things I need it to do because people like you think there is one way everyone should do things. What on earth is stopping you from turning on Avahi and using mDNS right now? Clicking on a checkbox in system settings? What else is there to it? I will continue to complain on how chatty this and a plethora of other things are. Actually their chattiness is not the issue, the fact that they sent even one packet of that protocol is my issue, or more importantly that they listened on that port offerinf network services on my client computer. So, now when there's a vulnerability abusing that service, a service no one uses, well too bad then right? A network service is an exposure, people/apps should opt into not opt out of exposures!