[avahi] browsing for services on a specific multicast address

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 18.03.09 18:59, Alon Noy (alon.noy at ilsemedia.nl) wrote:

> 
> 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.

I am not sure if I now get it, but this still smells like a misuse of
mDNS/DNS-SD to me.

Lennart

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