On Thu, 15.06.06 17:17, Nicholas Andrews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in how well mDNS-SD scales. I have heard it described > as a lightweight protocol, but I've never seen any numbers. At what > point does it become impractical to use it for service discovery?
According to Apple mDNS scales well for up to 1000 hosts. I don't know if they did simulations to prove that claim. And I do not know if Avahi actually is compatible enough with Bonjour that the claim still holds. And finally I know nothing about the network technology they used for that claim (100mbit ethernet, gigabit ethernet, WLAN?). In short: it's all very vague, the only value we ever heard or read was 1000 hosts. A side node: I haven't seen anything about the number of *services* mDNS scales to. Only *hosts*, which is not really the same. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering; lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553; GPG 0x1A015CC4; http://0pointer.net/lennart/ _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
