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Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by skykooler on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:16PM (#37475400)
Of course, not all routers (particularly combo router/modems provided by your ISP) support multicast DNS, so often this isn't an option.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by cstejerean on Monday September 11, 2023 @08:27PM (#37475499)
I haven't seen a home router that doesn't support Bonjour in the past decade. It's a fundamental component in the Apple ecosystem and any home router that didn't allow one to wireless print from their iPhone would be considered broken.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by brokenmachine on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:40AM (#37493009)
Do people really wireless print from their iPhone? Not once can I say I've wanted to print from my phone.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by atlanta90210 on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:41AM (#37546260)
Yes iphone wireless printing works great esp PDF attachments in emails. I use it quite a bit.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by zamadatix on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:20PM (#37475885)
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.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by ulope on Monday September 11, 2023 @09:56PM (#37476184)
That’s the nice thing about mDNS. No flooding of anything since it’s multicast and not broadcast.
Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by zamadatix on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:31PM (#37476409)
It would be nice... if it were actually "real" multicast :). It's instead link-local multicast, which has none of the filtering advantages of traditional IP multicast (i.e. no group joining via IGMP is performed for the switches/routers to be able learn who actually needs to listen) https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/route-igmp-link-loc... https://community.cisco.com/t5/switching/multicast-on-the-la....

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.

Re:Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows by skykooler on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @06:27PM (#37489439)
Starlink routers don't forward mDNS packets between clients, and neither did our Fios router before that.