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

[Jonathan Lassoff]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Joel jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com> wrote:

> On 5/10/12 16:21 , Phil Mayers wrote:
> > On 10/05/12 17:12, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
> >> <mailto:p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On 09/05/12 22:55, Jonathan Lassoff wrote:
> >>
> >>         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).
> >>
> >>
> >>     Out of curiosity, how did this work? Isn't most mDNS traffic TTL=1?
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't know about all the various implementations out there (of if the
> >> standard says anything), but my modern-ish OSX box does 255:
> >
> > Ok. Though I note that they're both link-local multicast groups, so
> > again I wonder how people did them cross-subnet.
>
> wide area bonjour is done like this:
>
> http://www.dns-sd.org/ServerSetup.html


On the surface, this looks like a much cleaner way of doing things,
provided the client support is there.

Thanks for the tip, Joel!

Cheers,
jof