Re: Iptables port 5353 -

Bob Goodwin wrote:
It appears that the stimulus for this is my daughters Apple Mac which
sends 224.0.0.251 and my computer tries to respond on port 5353. Her
computer runs dhcp connecting directly via an ethernet cable to the
wireless router since it is on her desk.

I guess then the question is if I open 5353 will she have access to my
DNS? Is this an indication that her computer needs that access? Would
it benefit?

It's simple enough to try it but I still wont know if it accomplishes
anything.

I would think she must have access to the DNS server provided by
Wildblue but it's been a year and a half since we set that one up and I
don't recall what was done and I am lost whenever I use her Mac ...

Bob Goodwin

Let me preface this by saying that I do not run zero-config, and I
do not have a MAC. So while I know how this is supposed to work, I
have not verified it.

If you open port 5353, what should happen is that your Linux box
will know how to reach the MAC by using its host name. The MAC will
be able to access the Linux box using its host name. For this to
work, both machines have to be running the zero-config daemon. But
it looks like they are, or you would not be getting this traffic. If
you add a Windows machine with zero-config enabled, it will also
show up. This does not set up other machines on the network to use
the DNS server on your Linux machine. They will still use the DNS
server supplied by the DHCP server. (Probably the wireless router.)

For a small home network, I prefer to configure the DHCP server to
give each machine a fixed address, and then add them to the hosts
file for each machine. For a larger network, I like to have a Linux
machine that is the DHCP and DNS server for the network. As part of
that, it updates its DNS table to match assigned IP addresses. It
also have the advantage of caching DNS entries locally, cutting down
slightly on Internet traffic, and speeding up DNS lookups for
machines on the local network.

Mikkel
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