On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Jens Alfke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to set a TXT record for the service.
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
Randall mentioned that there's really
On 1 Apr '08, at 1:35 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would be
inappropriate. But Randall didn't say
On Apr 1, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
On 1 Apr '08, at 1:35 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:
I disagree. If the updates are frequent, this makes a lot of work for
every other machine on the LAN to update their mDNSResponder caches.
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would
On 1 Apr '08, at 8:25 AM, Randall Meadows wrote:
If they're updating every second, then yes, TXT records would be
inappropriate. But Randall didn't say whether the updates were that
frequent.
I would expect maybe 5-10 over a 2-3 minute period, and then a
downtime of about the same;
My app registers a bonjour service, but basically it's really just
advertising the web server running on the same machine as my app, with
a little extra information pertaining to my app. My app places files
in a known location in the hierarchy that apache is serving, and I
need to send
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Randall Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But to use DO, there needs to be a known
connection between my app and the remote app, right? We don't want
this connection
What is it that you are averse to? A persistent connection? A fixed
handle for your
On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Hamish Allan wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Randall Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pc.com wrote:
But to use DO, there needs to be a known
connection between my app and the remote app, right? We don't want
this connection
What is it that you are averse to?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Randall Meadows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The two apps that are going to be communicating* will have similar,
though not identical life times. In general, my app is going to be
launched first, and will be gathering data; the remote app will likely
come
On 31 Mar '08, at 11:23 AM, Randall Meadows wrote:
My app places files in a known location in the hierarchy that apache
is serving, and I need to send out a notification when I make a
change that's visible via that hierarchy, so that remote apps can
pick up the changes. The docs for
