Re: Rendezvous

[Tobias]

i was not sure, if i should step into this discussion, but now...

> > In order for NSNetServices to work, the mDNS responder needs to be
> > running on each machine, client and server.  

this is not neccessarily true, you can promote service running on host a on 
host b and consume on host c.
only b and c needs to run the mDNS daemon.

> > Then the services are
> > registered with the daemon.  Apple has open sourced their Rendezvous
> > implementation with Linux makefiles and such.  What should be done
> > with the code for the mDNS daemon?

compiled ;) 
no kidding, be sure not to read the source to closely (*), maybe some of us 
ends up writing another mdns daemon.

>
> The "open sourced Rendezvous" Apple offers you to download _only_
> includes a multicast DNS responder.
>
> If you want to implement NSNetServices and friends, you probably need a
> full Rendezvous compatible daemon, not just the mDNS responder.

but i guess it is worth it.
i am interested in doing it myself (allready thought about the how), but do 
not have time atm.
(way too many interesting tasks..., way too less time...)

> Besides, since the above mentioned mDNS responder is licensed under the
> APSL, I doubt that it can be added to GNUstep directly.

it cannot. it is incompatible to the gpl.

but there are more free mdns implemementations.
see dotlocal.org for one (and the kame cvs for a better (but bsd-only afaik)).

* and be not too appealed by the comments (see sco-linux discussion ;)

~ibotty