On Fri, 16.06.06 15:28, Nicholas Andrews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > In a talk Stuart Cheshire gave at Google > (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7398680103951126462&q=bonjour) > he goes as low as 100 hosts as already being too many. He isn't clear, > however, on if that means that it would generate too much chatter to > be practical or just more than what the protocol is supposed to be > used for (and indeed there is no mention of the type of network). > > I know that SLP allows scopes to be defined to help scale to larger > networks, and I was wondering if there was (or could be) an equivalent > with mDNS-SD? My application is a wireless ad-hoc network, so the > question of overhead is an important one.
You could make use of DNS-SD on unicast DNS. This requires a central server, though. And unfortunately, Avahi does supports this in a read-only fashion only, right now. (However, full write support is being worked on.) 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
