Zero-configuration networking: Difference between revisions

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====DLNA====

[[Digital Living Network Alliance]] (DLNA) is another suite of standards that uses UPnP for the discovery of networked devices. DLNA has a long list of prominent manufacturers producing devices such as TVs, NAS devices and so forth that support it. DLNA is supported by all major operating systems. DLNA service discovery is layered on top of SSDP.

====Efforts toward an IETF standard protocol====

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===Link-local IPv4 addresses===

Where no DHCP server is available to assign a host an IP address, the host can select its own [[link-local address]]. Thus hosts can communicate over this the link but only locally. There are some [[Link-local address|link-local IPv4 address]] implementations available:

* Apple Mac OS and MS Windows have supported link-local addresses since 1998.{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} Apple released its open-source implementation in the [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]] bootp package.

* [[Avahi (software)|Avahi]] contains an implementation of [[IPv4LL]] in the avahi-autoipd tool.