[systemd-devel] mdns support to networkd

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 20.06.14 21:28, Christian Hesse (list at eworm.de) wrote:

> Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> on Fri, 2014/06/20 20:19:
> > On Sat, 14.06.14 01:13, Vasiliy Tolstov (v.tolstov at selfip.ru) wrote:
> > 
> > > As i see avahi development stopped.
> > 
> > Well, yeah, I am doign a shitty job at maintaining it.
> > 
> > > Does mdns support goes to networkd or no?
> > 
> > Well, no. But into systemd-resolved. Our plan is to turn
> > systemd-resolved into an nscd compatible daemon that speaks dns/dnssec,
> > mdns, llmnr, in the long run replacing avahi. 
> 
> Does this cover server functionality only or will there be client bits as
> well?

Both. mDNS is a very much a peer-to-peer system, hence all participants
tend to implement both sides.

I actually intend to make this useful enough so that we can use it for
containers and the host to discover earch other and their services.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat