(If this message somehow reaches twice, I apologize. It looks like my first message was smallowed somewhere along the way, probably because the "From" was different.)
I'm a little confused about DNS-SD subtypes. I'm working on an application that's not unlike one previously discussed at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2006-May/000730.html: > The main service should bear a name like: > > bittorrent at foobar > > and a type of > > _bittorrent._tcp > > The subservice for the bt hash > 32f17bbf96bdc77de85bb91ff8d56f124e817c0a should be: > > _32f17bbf96bdc77de85bb91ff8d56f124e817c0a._sub._bittorrent._tcp > > You may include the peer-id in the TXT records if you think that makes > sense. I want to use a similar gooblety-gook subtype so that our resolver can find an exact instance of the application amongst a set of machines. However, I have a few questions: 1) If the host X publishes a record for _bittorrent._tcp, will host Y also see the subtype along with it, or is this only possible through a query from host Y for the specific subtype? 2) Does avahi-daemon cache the subtypes along with the type? If the answer to #1 is "no," does this caching occur only on query? (i.e. if Y keeps looking for _foo._sub._bittorrent._tcp, does avahi-daemon cache where to find the sub-type)? 3) Is there any way to browse subtypes? (I guess this also depends on #1, though you could imagine being able to browse the previously-cached values). ...Zach _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
