-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear OLPC Devel folks, Is it possible to enable mDNS name resolution in future builds of OLPC OS?
Fedora and most Linux distros (not to mention Macs) support mDNS out of the box, yet for some reason it is turned off in OLPC OS. I believe all that is required is the addition of the nss-mdns package to the OLPC OS build. Enabling mDNS allows us to add an Internet-in-a-Box network appliance to an XO deployment network with zero configuration. The user just plugs our device into their network and browser queries for http://know.local simply resolve. This works on Mac and most flavors of Linux, and for Windows we provide an NMB name at http://know. But ironically the XO seems to lack any mechanism for de-centralized local resource discovery. Unfortunately, since OLPC OS does not resolve mDNS names we are finding deployments to XO schools are much, much harder. We are, for example, right now in the middle of a deployment to a large school with XOs in Pakistan. Instead of just plugging in the Internet-in-a-Box device, the people on-site need to reconfigure DHCPd on their CentOS XS School Server to supply a static IP to our appliance's MAC address, then use the IP address from the XO's browser. Not ideal, and I'm not sure they will succeed. A successful deployment of Internet-in-a-Box to a Windows-based school in Sierra Leone, on the other hand, was trivial. Thanks, Braddock Gaskill Founder, Internet-in-a-Box Project http://internet-in-a-box.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR+YPTAAoJEHWLR/DQzlZubWAH/AsAPXBJgIiUzT44jqZeObJF a3ebCOypZnDTYHO+RVd3T3fGhx3uopFY3zQjiywZ+9sKYEQlMOg/pVoYtXxfAdXD wmxWKy26iyl2po+KXJlPyT7brEJ1MKkHmlyTZiXSj82E5pf9BbITFsQjEwqeeGwe 9JO8YjOmaUVbZVRuNSWfwsPJz2RlZZPNZR9d/VGkyTkvmNRiaqvNpFBa8SyFFC7D F7E6mPsAvzTDogXQz3RCsyHjmXV/BIpl5nqtFViVEp4hbjWc2kXwdEqLqX27dWJC /SWovkjOifwWyvd0aiLEM0202RN/FzsdhAl50e1ptV3EzEw1bZXHD+83ty0N0hQ= =xnyF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
