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Of course, not all routers (particularly combo router/modems provided by your ISP) support multicast DNS, so often this isn't an option.
The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.
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The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.
That’s the nice thing about mDNS. No flooding of anything since it’s multicast and not broadcast.
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The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.
That’s the nice thing about mDNS. No flooding of anything since it’s multicast and not broadcast.
The advantage of link-local multicast over a plain broadcast is it gives a unique address (IP and multicast) so the clients themselves can more easily filter them. That's about it. An mdns aware router just enables MORE flooding to happen (across subnet boundaries, where link-local is not supposed to go).
Remember when OSX used to ship with gigs worth of printer drivers in attempt to satisfy the “it just works” user experience of their products? You could uninstall them and get a huge chunk of disk space back.
I live in the Apple ecosystem and I know HP does a lot of consumer-hostile stuff but I bought my HP laser from Costco (who refuse to sell subscription printers) mostly because of it's support for AirPrint with no additional software. And it works, the quality is great, and I'm happy. Didn't have to install anything.
HP laser printers are not on the subscription model? I sought out a Brother laser printer specifically due to several bad experiences with lockout on HP printers.
Also, the exercise equipment they sell don't require an internet account for basic functionality, and I believe this goes for the TVs sold at Costco as well.
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I don’t bother owning a home printer. They basically all suck. Easier to just go to the library and print.
1. Buy a Brother laser printer 2. Put it on your Wi-Fi 3. There is no step three This is basically like when people say dishwashers don’t do a good job because they’ve only bought ones designed by American MBAs. HP and Epson made good products in the previous century but are now customer-milking operations and it’s better to pretend they don’t exist.
I've done nothing to it but put paper in it. The highest praise I can give a printer is: "I don't hate this one"