Zeroconf in FC5?

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 02:09:02 UTC 2005


On 6/5/05, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat.com> wrote:
> So get working.  There is a lot to do.  And don't mention these foolish
> attempts of integration done by some other distributions.
> 
> What is needed is another daemon (or an extended and renamed
> mDNSResponder) which monitors the network and caches all entries for the
> appropriate time.  The daemon needs a programming interface so that a
> new NSS module can be used to query the daemon's cache of known
> addresses and probably also to initiate the daemon to send out requests
> for information which isn't in the cache.
> 
> I talked with the author of the current (unusable) nss_mdns module and
> he plans to do something like this after I explained it to him.  But I
> haven't seen any progress.

Are you referring to the nss_mdns module that comes bundled with
Apple's own implementation of Zeroconf/Rendezvous/Bonjour?




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