If we are going to do this, implementing static wide area bonjour entries seems the way to go.
Thanks for the references, but the one thing I can't find is the format for the SRV and TXT records for an Apple TV. If anyone has those I'd be grateful for them, I have an Apple TV device in my hands now, so if someone has a suggestion on how to reverse engineer them, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -Neil -- Neil Johnson Network Engineer The University of Iowa Phone: 319 384-0938 Fax: 319 335-2951 Mobile: 319 540-2081 E-Mail: neil-john...@uiowa.edu On 12/16/11 3:31 PM, "Jason Healy" <jhe...@logn.net> wrote: >On Dec 16, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Luke Jenkins wrote: > >> I forgot to add background reading for anyone else crazy enough to try >>to get this working: > >We're crazy enough to do all our printer advertisements this way (we're >an all-Apple campus). We publish a wide-area DNS-SD subdomain and >advertise all our printers there. We then block all multicast >advertisements from end users to prevent people from sharing their >devices directly. When Mac users open their printer selection box, all >of our official printers auto-populate into the list. > >Haven't tried anything with AppleTVs (don't have any official ones yet), >but if the process is the same then it shouldn't be too hard to do. >We've scripted the creation of the DNS-SD domain from a central set of >config data, and it just barfs out the needed BIND files. > >Happy to provide sample records if anyone is interested. > >Jason > >-- >Jason Healy | jhe...@logn.net | http://www.logn.net/ > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
