I will probably at some point go ahead and download opensolaris, so at least I can support that.
wrt howl: yeah, it would be nice to use a built-in, but I think the built-in is going to be removed soon — next release won’t have the built-in responder. More and more distros are shipping with a mdns of some type already: howl, avahi, or apple’s, and now I’m having more problems with the built-in stepping on an already-installed mdns server, or else code cruft in the apple one, like this problem.
Thanks for the patches, I’ll use them when I get that opensolaris build system set up.
— Ron