Do some ISPs pick up the dynamic global hostname (global Bonjour)?
Uh no. I said many things were not stated before. Just because some people are confused doesn’t mean that there aren’t precise definitions for these things and it certainly doesn’t help when people pretend to be authorities on matters in which they aren’t. What I stated is fact. Bonjour’s purpose and capabilities are quite clear. The way it works it quite well understood (and thoroughly documented, just not in Apple’s consumer manuals). The way the file sharing works from Apple’s various products works in well defined and equally well understood. The same goes for dynamic DNS. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean that it is just voodoo. All current dynamic DNS services use some proprietary variant of URL posting to update the IP address, so you can be sure that only their clients or hardware devices from companies like Linksys that advertise support for specific dynamic dns services will support their service. They aren’t using an open standard so it is not a question of c
