From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: marc@boschma.cx, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 19:42:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e9e24eac4cebcbec3805d16d0081dc5@mule> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4A21AAA-FE61-4FE5-B3F2-E4CD500526DE@boschma.cx>
On Fri Jan 1 19:32:25 PST 2016, marc@boschma.cx wrote:
>
> > On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> > anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9?
> >
>
> No, but I have an interest; just starting out with Plan9 :)
>
> > my rough plan is to write a file server which generates /lib/ndb/mdns
> > which can be included into your /lib/ndb/local.
> >
> > I fear the biggest hassle is the clash of UDP port use may mean
> > mDNS must become part of dns(1) rather than a separate file server.
> >
>
> Shouldn’t dns(1) only bind to unicast UDP port and thus mDNS could bind to the multicast UDP port?
>
> Are you only considering resolution or also publishing services?
it would make sense to me to make a dnsudp request file server that manages requests, and
fork (ha!) that task off to it. this file server would not care if it's querying normal dns,
or mdns.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 20:05 Steve Simon
2016-01-02 3:30 ` Marc Boschma
2016-01-02 3:42 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2016-01-02 5:17 ` Marc Boschma
2016-01-02 9:21 ` Steve Simon
2016-01-02 9:59 ` Marc Boschma
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