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Re: [dnssd] Security through Obscurity

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 24 July 2014 18:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dnssd] Security through Obscurity
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RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
    > The most common reason that my clients give me is that
    > predictable/deterministic IP addressing lowers their
    > operating costs.  Larger enterprises often use DHCP
    > to obtain this.  Smaller enterprises find DHCP complex
    > to deploy/configure, but they still want predictable
    > addressing in their IP network deployments.

Three printers on the floor.
One is reporting it is broken, so broken that you can't do much more than
see that it exists.  Which one is it?  Match address to mac address on bottom
of unit.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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