[avahi] Registering Service Subtype?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 06.11.08 10:27, Aldrin Martoq (amartoq at dcc.uchile.cl) wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 08:01 -0500, Mark K. Gardner wrote:
> > I tried a bunch of things and finally got rid of the exception by
> > passing a complete subtype, e.g., _subservice._sub._demo._tcp, instead
> > of just the extension (_subservice).
> 
> I suggest move the problem out of zeroconf and handle in your
> application. Make sure that any application/node participating in the
> network could be a server/worker, I think is a cleaner design from the
> point of view of the end-user and the programmer.

It is always a good idea to design your system in away that the
response set is minimal. To achieve that you should carefully choose
how you use types and subtypes --- and never simply register everything
under the same and do the matching in your code!

Lennart

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