[avahi] browsing for services on a specific multicast address

[Alon Noy]

I guess I didn't quit understand what the apple util dns-sd suppose to 
do (I'm not a maci :) ), and the partial (and misleading) documentation 
which I received for this server farm didn't help either, but I think 
that what is really going on is that I'm suppose to query for sub type: 
_225_0_10_100._sub._ftp._tcp in order to identify the nodes of a cluster.

the sub type _225_0_10_100 is just a way to group the different servers in a cluster. Its a way to say that these servers communicate between themselves on multicasting address 225.0.10.100 and not as I initially thought that they are using a different multicasting address for mDNS.
 


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Tue, 17.03.09 09:24, Alon Noy (alon.noy at ilsemedia.nl) wrote:
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>   
>> OK, that makes sense, so I need to browse for the subtype right?!
>> So here is the next question, is this a valid subtype:  
>> "225_0_10_100._ftp._tcp"?
>>     
>
> No. It needs a "_sub" as second label. Also using an IP address in the
> type simply makes no sense to me...
>
>   
>> I think that avahi insists on having a leading underscore but is it an  
>> avahi think or is it in the zeroconf spec?
>>     
>
> http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt
>
> Lennart
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