All, On 19/03/2009, at 3:09 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 18.03.09 18:59, Alon Noy ([email protected]) wrote: > >> >> I guess I didn't quit understand what the apple util dns-sd suppose >> to >> do (I'm not a maci :) ), and the partial (and misleading) >> documentation >> which I received for this server farm didn't help either, but I think >> that what is really going on is that I'm suppose to query for sub >> type: >> _225_0_10_100._sub._ftp._tcp in order to identify the nodes of a >> cluster. >> >> the sub type _225_0_10_100 is just a way to group the different >> servers in a cluster. Its a way to say that these servers >> communicate between themselves on multicasting address 225.0.10.100 >> and not as I initially thought that they are using a different >> multicasting address for mDNS. > > I am not sure if I now get it, but this still smells like a misuse of > mDNS/DNS-SD to me. I had considered some type of similar logic to implement a "true" multi-user multi-cast chat using multicast messages. Pick a multicast address, and multiple people advertise it as a service to the same hostname and messages are broadcast to it. Never really specced or worked it out tho. Trent _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
