> Now I just ping ff02::1 multicast to see what devices are on my network. Unfortunately much software makes it a pain to use link-local addresses but they're really convenient as they normally don't change across networks.
How does that help? I don't want a list of IPs, I want to reach my devices by name (which DHCP makes easy).
mDNS (formerly known as Bonjour and other things) uses multicast names to call devices by name on the local subnet. It works most of the time on most of the modern OSes.
How does that help? I don't want a list of IPs, I want to reach my devices by name (which DHCP makes easy).