[j-nsp] Help Needed for Bonjour Routing/OSX Clients

Jonathan Lassoff jof at thejof.com
Wed May 9 17:55:45 EDT 2012


To get Bonjour to work across LANs, you would need to enable multicast
routing so that clients on the various LANs can join the same group.

Bonjour is just Apple's name for mDNS (multicast DNS).

Provided that everyone can solicit queries and hear announcements, hosts
should be able to resolve the addresses of the other stations and will then
attempt to route to it.

I've gotten this to work in the past, but it ended up being a LOT more work
than just using DNS names and routing (which I've subsequently done each
time).


Bonjour / mDNS is really only great at service discovery and small-scale
name resolution, IMO. DNS and distributing names at scale; not so much.

Cheers,
jof


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