[nycbug-talk] Interesting

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jun 30, 2004, at 8:50 PM, Paul Dlug wrote:

> On Jun 30, 2004, at 5:26 PM, Pete Wright wrote:
>
>> Sorry this is apple related, but very interesting non-the-less:
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous/
>>
>> A quote:
>> "Rendezvous technology is also available on various POSIX platforms, 
>> including Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD."
>
> It's not from Apple but rendezvous has been available for a while:
>
> http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/
>
> It's in the FreeBSD ports collection: net/howl
>
> I've used it successfully for a while, there's also a perl module: 
> net/p5-Net-Rendezvous
>
> I'm not aware of any major applications or OS distributions including 
> this functionality yet. It's not really interesting until someone does 
> the work to integrate it so you can connect FreeBSD box and a Mac and 
> just have them start talking.

Doesn't Apple's open source mDNSResponder work on other platforms?

-bob
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