In addition, Jeremie (yes, *our* Jeremie) has been playing with this. He's even got a site devoted to it at http://www.dotlocal.org. Under the heading of Software, mdnsd is his implementation, written in C.
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:01 am, David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote: > Apple's Rendevous protocol is an implementation of the drafts from the > IETF zeroconf working group. Basically it broadcasts a packet with a > TTL of 1 (or maybe a slightly higher small number in some envrionments, > such as corporate networks with small subnets that support routing > broadcast packets between subnets) and then waits for a response. This > kind of functionality could not be implemented within the framework of > the Jabber protocol, since it is 100% peer-to-peer, but there's no > reason why clients and servers could not implement the service discovery > portion (http://www.dns-sd.org/), allowing a client to find a local > server with which to register, and local clients to add to a roster. > > If anyone feels like adding this functionality to their client / server, > the docs needed are the DNS over IP-multicast internet draft > (draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt) and the DNS-Based Service > Discovery draft > (http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt). (DNS-Based > Service Discovery can be used with conventional DNS, but is much less > useful.) > > Justin Karneges wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm sure many of you saw this on slashdot: http://www.trepia.com/ > > > >Looks like an interesting idea, and the client reminds me of Rhymbox, but > > they don't use Jabber. :P :P :P > > > >And an article for ya: > >http://slate.msn.com/id/2083733/ > > > >It seems it suffers from the usual issues that Jabber does: no users, lame > >client. Well, at least we are farther along than Trepia. However, > > something tells me that with all this recent publicity, Trepia will get a > > ton of users. > > > >IMO, a superior solution could be made using Jabber. No need for Trepia > > to re-invent the IM client wheel again or waste their converts on a > > dead-end protocol. > > > >We already have extendable presence, vcards, avatars, browsing .. > > > >Btw, is there an open protocol for detecting LAN/Wi-Fi users? I've heard > > that Apple's Rendevous can do this, but I don't know anything about it. > > Trepia has the ability using a similar tactic, I think. > > > >Anyway, I'd like to see a JEP and related server and client > > implementations by next week, thank you. > > > >-Justin > >_______________________________________________ > >jdev mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
