Static IP vs DHCP

[jlindquist74]

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

Couldn't agree with this more. At the end of the day, mDNS (DHCP) doesn't buy you much.

Please don't use those terms as if they mean the same thing. They really, truly, vastly DO NOT.

Greatly simplified:

• DHCP is how a host, lacking its own address, asks a server to assign it one. (It requires a DHCP server to be present somewhere on the local network in order to work.)
  
• mDNS is how a host, lacking the address of another host on the local network, asks that other host to provide its address. (It does NOT require a server to work.)

How those protocols are implemented and used varies with the operating system. Of course, Windows has peculiar issues about mDNS, which complicates things. It certainly keeps our work from being boring!