Zeroconf/Rendezvous/Bonjour and DSL
Forum: Networking
Topic: Zeroconf/Rendezvous/Bonjour and DSL
started by: kopsis
Posted by kopsis on Jan. 30 2006,05:12
If you've ever used the network music sharing features in iTunes on a Mac or Windows box, you've used Zeroconf (aka Rendezvous aka Bonjour) networking. I'm a big fan of Zeroconf. I use it extensively in my home network (a mix of Macs and Linux boxes) and I'm getting to the point where I cringe if I have to actually type in an IP address (Zeroconf lets me just use "hostname.local"). However, my favorite thin-client (an old Thinkpad running DSL) hasn't been able to get in on the Zeroconf love ... until now 
I've managed to build a version of Lennart Poettering's < nss-mdns > plugin that works in DSL. nss-mdns is a tiny little magic library that knows how to turn "hostname.local" into whatever IP address the machine with that hostname happens to be using.
I'm posting here to see if there's sufficient interest to justify turning it into a MyDSL extension and submitting to the repository. How 'bout it? Any users out there itching to get their DSL boxen to play nice with their Macs? If so, let me hear from you.
Note that this is only the name service client portion of Zeroconf. Next item on the agenda is building < Howl > for DSL to get the mDNSResponder so that the other systems can see the DSL box.
Posted by dgreenb on Oct. 05 2006,02:27
Has there been any progress on this front? I'd love to get zeroconf working for my DSL app. I'm making a digital photo frame for the parents, and it'd be nice to hide the dark underbelly of the network from them...Thanks!
-Dave