[avahi] Resolving multiple IPV6 address

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 12.12.08 16:30, Marc Manthey (marc at let.de) wrote:

>> 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.
>
> Any system osx or linux has "bind" installed allready , furthermore

Oh really?

I am a bit involved in production of certain Linux products called
"Fedora" and "RHEL" and I know for sure that neither installs bind by
default. Why should it?

> any "client " could turn into a "wide area server"  with a charm .

Uh? Why would you want to do that? Also, you need a lot of non-trivial
configuration to set up a bind server. Both on the server itself and
on others to actually make your new srver known.

I really don't get what you plan to do.

>> 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,
>
> to prevent further confusion i recomment  reading this paper ;)
>
> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/uia:osdi06.pdf

Sorry, that's too long, I am too lazy for that... Grepping for
"Bonjour" shows me however that they use Bonjour for initial discovery
of local services. They don't use no wide-area DNS-SD.

Lennart

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