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17. Bonjour, Windows Active Directory Support, DDNS
17-1 Bonjour Support
What is Bonjour?
Bonjour is formally called “Rendezvous”. The name of technology has been changed from Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger”.
Bonjour is Apple Computer's version of ZeroConf (Zero Configuration Networking), a set of protocols that enables a
device on an IP network to automatically recognize and connect with other devices on the network. To the end user, this
means that when a new device (such as a printer) connects to the network, every computer on the network is able to
use it instantly without any setup or special configuration. Bonjour uses IETF standards for both Link Local Addressing
(LLA) and Multicast DNS (mDNS). mDNS allows the new device to advertise its existence and the services it offers. LLA
looks around, negotiates with other devices on the subnet, and picks a suitable IP address for the device.
Bonjour provides you with the following three solutions:
Addressing (allocating IP addresses to hosts)
Naming (using names to refer to hosts instead of IP addresses)
Service discovery (finding and using services on the network)
For more detailed information, refer to Apple Computer Website;
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
17-2 Windows Active Directory Support (Paper Size Setting Tab - PCL only)
17-2-19 Purpose and Benefits
The purpose of Paper Size Setting function is to support Active Directory function of MS Windows Operation System. It
allows the administrator of the printer server to have the access to the settings of paper size of every available input tray,
which determines the available paper size for the client user, and thus supports Active Directory.
17-2-20 Supported OS:
NT/2000/XP or later
17-3 DDNS (Dynamic Domain Name System) Support
17-3-21 How it works
Records (**) managed by DNS server will be dynamically renewed.
Without DDNS, manual renewal of records required when DNS client’s IP address is changed.
(**) Records are two type of mapping information as follows;
1.”A” record for host name to IP address
2.”PTR” record for IP address to host name.
