[138095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Mon Feb 28 07:36:28 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:35:23 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <D7AE1389-E3A7-4D35-AA49-46AFCB3C9823@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
> But the ND messages don't tell you anything other than the Mac
> address about which host it actually is. In theory, at least, snooping
> the DHCP messages might include a hostname or some other
> useful identifier.
It ought to be possible to look at SMB or mDNS messages to get more
information about what the host claims to be...
Tony.
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