[avahi] browsing for services on a specific multicast address

[Alon Noy]

Well, if the mac util dns-sd can browse a specific multicast address
(dns-sd -B 225_0_10_100._ftp._tcp) then I would expect that it's a
zeroconf functionality. They did came up initially with zeroconf, right?

But nevermind, I guess I'll have to snoop the multicast address myself.
 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: avahi-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org
[mailto:avahi-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] Namens Lennart Poettering
Verzonden: maandag 16 maart 2009 17:03
Aan: avahi at lists.freedesktop.org
Onderwerp: Re: [avahi] browsing for services on a specific multicast
address

On Mon, 16.03.09 13:46, Alon Noy (Alon.Noy at ilsemedia.nl) wrote:

> 
> I don't have any documentation to contribute but I can explain the
> logic:
> A large amount of file servers (it's not really ftp) are being split
> into clusters, when a file is added to one server in the cluster it is
> being replicated on different nodes within the cluster (for
availability
> and backup). The construction of clusters gives the possibility to
have
> different clusters for different purposes on one local network.
> 
> If this functionality is not supported on the client side will it be
> possible to configure the daemon to listen to a specific multicasting
> address?

No. The mdns spec only defines 224.0.0.251 as mDNS multicast group and
that's why we use it. I see no reason to support a different address.

I am sorry, but I don't really understand what you are trying to do. I
kind of get the feeling you are misusing the mcast functionality for
something where VLANs should be used instead.

Lennart

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