On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:04:50AM -0800, Stuart Cheshire wrote:
There seem to be two concerns, the trade mark law suit, and the
patent.
I dont think that one is a concern in the real world.
without self-assigned addresses. The part that's still missing is
mDNS
(for local naming without a DNS server) and DNS-SD (for browsing to find
what's out there). That's what's provided by Apple's Darwin mDNSResponder
code.
Agreed.
Eric Raymond wrote, "The inventor of zeroconf, Stuart Cheshire,
tells me
... he doesn't understand the politics of ... the Linux community".
It's true. I don't. I've worked hard to make a technology that makes
I think you understand more of it than you give credit for. Its not like you
haven't contributed kernel driver code 8)
possibly manage. If someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong,
I'm happy
to listen.
mDNS lookup is probably a question for the glibc people primarily (ie Ulrich
and friends). Glibc has the resolver routines Linux uses as nss_dns, and other
services via nss_nis (YP) and so on. I assume that what is needed is a matching
nss_mdns for the lookup side of mDNS.
Alan
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