On 1/31/22 02:11, Tim via users wrote:
And at some stage people are going to stop making devices look for
DHCP
and fallback on Avahi, they'll decide to simplify things and just
follow the latest fad. You'll end up with a gadget that only does
Avahi.
You have this quite confused. DHCP and mdns are orthogonal. The device
still gets an IP normally using DHCP. mdns is a replacement for dynamic
dns on a local network. It's so that you can find your device
regardless of what IP it ends up getting because it has a fixed name.
And it broadcasts that info locally so that other devices know it's
there. Whether or not you personally like it, it's very useful and
extremely helpful for less technical people.