In the service of Aunt Tillie -- Zero-configuration networking

[Ulrich Drepper]

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Alan Cox wrote:

> mDNS lookup is probably a question for the glibc people primarily (ie Ulrich
> and friends). Glibc has the resolver routines Linux uses as nss_dns, and other
> services via nss_nis (YP) and so on. I assume that what is needed is a matching
> nss_mdns for the lookup side of mDNS.

NSS modules have a documented interface.  The code need not be in glibc.
 And I do not want any of this in there, this is a network application.
 nss_dns is in glibc only because the resolver is in there as well.  All
but the essential modules should be in a separate package.  NSS modules
are easy to write for somebody who understands the technical side of the
service.  The interface an NSS module must provide is described in the
libc info pages.

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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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