[avahi] Resolving multiple IPV6 address

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 12.12.08 16:09, Marc Manthey (marc at let.de) wrote:

> So i want to  enable several services on a particular host /machine
> with a given name , but this connected clients  should return
> all connected "adresses "aswell.

What do you mean by that? Why would you want to know about more than
one IP address?

Don't forget that if you get an address from mDNS you should not
assume that it is stable, reliable or valid for any extended period of
time. You should use it only to connect to a service right away and
then forget about it. And because that is the way it is it is
irrelevant which address is returned to you, as long as it works for
the moment.

> As far as i can see U.I.A. uses  wide area bonjour in there  
> implementation

I totally don't get what UIA does, but they do say you can use Avahi
via avahi-utils on the web site. Hence I am pretty sure they don't
require any functionality that Avahi doesn't provide right now.

> So connecting "nodes" without a central wide area bonjour
> server would be our final goal.

This is very confusing. Either you use wide area Bonjour and then you
do have a central server or you don't use it and then you don't. The
only distuingishing part between normal mDNS/DNS-SD and wide-area
DNS-SD is whether we use a central server or not. Hence what you write
here makes no sense, no sense at all.

Confused, 

Lennart

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