[nycbug-talk] Interesting

[Pete Wright]

Isaac Levy wrote:

> On Jul 1, 2004, at 3:03 AM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>>> 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?
>
>
> It does, yes- I installed up both the apple package, and howl months 
> back- but it wasn't pretty IMO, and I haven't done it since.  With 
> that, I also had trouble figuring out how to do stuff like getting ssh 
> to function using rendevousz naming, (i.e. ssh hostname.local), and 
> was confounded by the whole setup procedure- all for something which I 
> wanted to simplify my life- so I gave up.
>
> If you have any ideas on how to make some of the things which are 
> common/sane builtins easy to work with rendevousz, I'm all ears- but 
> this is what I was speaking of before, where Apple, in their own 
> interest (in getting their boxen into mixed unix enviornments), 
> reaches out and helps push this kind of thing along to make it work in 
> a more out-of-the-box style for some other unixes...
>
what sounded interesting to me was this bit:
" Check out the mDNSResponder project from Darwin CVS to get the new 
POSIX compatible mDNS Responder daemon (mdnsd) which provides the same 
DNSServiceDiscovery API available on Mac OS X and Windows."
would this be enough to get more apps to work seamlessly with darwin, or 
has this pretty much always been the case via zeroconf?
 
-p



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