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

[OBrien, Will]

How big is the network?

Will O'Brien

On May 9, 2012, at 4:59 PM, "Jonathan Lassoff" <jof at thejof.com> wrote:

> 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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