Re: network://

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net>]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 18:34, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 20:43, Ian McKellar wrote:
> 
> > This doesn't include a server but has applications advertise themselves.
> > I haven't had any problems running multiple apps at once. I do think
> > that a gnome-wide responder would be better since responders really
> > should be watching for things like interfaces coming up and down to
> > readvertise on new interfaces transparently, but I don't think that
> > would cause any conflict with other responders on the system.
> 
> Righty - I wasn't sure if it worked that way or not.  Multicast works a
> little differently than plain TCP, which is where all my network coding
> experience lies.  ;-)

Yeah, I'm just learning too :)
> 
> > 
> > Now I just need to make MOL work on my system again so I can keep
> > hacking on this. I have a bunch of changes I need to finish and check in
> > that I was half way through when my laptop broke last.
> 
> Ouch.  :(
> 
> btw, have you contacted any of the other zeroconf-on-linux groups
> (dotlocal.org, zeroconf.sf.net, etc.) to see about possible
> collaboration?

I'm using mdnsd from dotlocal.org but I got no response from the guy who
runs that when I mailed him about passing bugfixes upstream. I want to
replace all the mdnsd code in gmdns because its got some really serious
bugs (it can trivially and frequently get into infinite loops). I
haven't really looked at the zeroconf.sf.net stuff - it looked to me to
be focussed on the IP allocation stuff thats owned by the ietf zeroconf
committee but doesn't have much technical connection to mdns and SRV.

Ian