derefr 2 days ago

In an ideal world, the browser could act as an mDNS client, discovering local services, so that it could then show the pretty name of the relevant service in the security prompt.

In the world we live in, of course, almost nothing on your average LAN has an associated mDNS service advertisement.

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mixmastamyk 1 day ago

They don’t? Every time I install an OS I turn that stuff off, because I don’t fully understand it. Or is avahi et al another thing?

kayodelycaon 1 day ago

Avahi handles zeroconf networking, which is mDNS and DNS-SD.