On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:04:50AM -0800, Stuart Cheshire wrote: > There seem to be two concerns, the trade mark law suit, and the patent. I dont think that one is a concern in the real world. > without self-assigned addresses. The part that's still missing is mDNS > (for local naming without a DNS server) and DNS-SD (for browsing to find > what's out there). That's what's provided by Apple's Darwin mDNSResponder > code. Agreed. > Eric Raymond wrote, "The inventor of zeroconf, Stuart Cheshire, tells me > ... he doesn't understand the politics of ... the Linux community". > > It's true. I don't. I've worked hard to make a technology that makes I think you understand more of it than you give credit for. Its not like you haven't contributed kernel driver code 8) > possibly manage. If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, I'm happy > to listen. mDNS lookup is probably a question for the glibc people primarily (ie Ulrich and friends). Glibc has the resolver routines Linux uses as nss_dns, and other services via nss_nis (YP) and so on. I assume that what is needed is a matching nss_mdns for the lookup side of mDNS. Alan -- The clouds are dark, the rain does pour But its sunny down at number four Across the road its foggy still And its snowing hard upon the hill - A guide to Swansea weather
