Hi Ulrich, On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 17:21 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Daryll Strauss wrote: > > So, I'd like to see zeroconf > > really integrated in to FC5. I think it'll make network setup for a lot > > of users much easier. > > So get working. There is a lot to do. And don't mention these foolish > attempts of integration done by some other distributions. > > What is needed is another daemon (or an extended and renamed > mDNSResponder) which monitors the network and caches all entries for the > appropriate time. The daemon needs a programming interface so that a > new NSS module can be used to query the daemon's cache of known > addresses and probably also to initiate the daemon to send out requests > for information which isn't in the cache. > > I talked with the author of the current (unusable) nss_mdns module and > he plans to do something like this after I explained it to him. But I > haven't seen any progress. It seems like the nss-mdns author has made some progress on this. The latest version allows queries to be directed through Avahi's mDNS responder (the responder in FC5), meaning responses are cached directly etc. Any opinions on this implementation and whether or not it would be appropriate to include in FC5? From a quick look at the code, one of my initial concerns is that, for every query, the module opens a new connection with the daemon and opens the /etc/mdns.allow file. At the very least, though, it looks like progress in the direction you suggested. Cheers, Mark. P.S. - Bastien points out his packaging of the 0.6 version: http://files.hadess.net/redhat/perso/source/nss-mdns-0.6-1.src.rpm Might be a useful starting point for anyone wanting to package the 0.7 version with --enable-avahi -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
