OT: tiny mDNS?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Wed Jun 7 00:30:11 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:24 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> anyone have pointers to a small mDNS client, appropriate for your
> basic ethernet-connected embedded system?

What's an mdns, and how does it differ from the dnsd we've got in the tree 
now?  (Which I still haven't had a chance to look much at.  I miss the days 
when I could read existing code in the tree and write new code rather than 
rushing to keep up with an endless stream of other people's new patches...  
But it's on my to-do list.)

> i'm familiar with the 
> major implementations mostly in name only (howl, avahi).  is the
> avahi daemon small enough to consider?  we did put the portable
> apple code on one product, but it was a little cumbersome and
> large for my tastes.  (i'm hoping someone will say they have a
> busybox applet all ready to go.  ;-)

What _is_ it?

Ctrl-alt-google: http://www.multicastdns.org/

Lovely.

If it uses the same packet formats, we should be able to extend our current 
dns daemon to do it.  Eventually...

> paul

Rob
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