From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 19:54:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB67616A522 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:54:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from smtp.volant.org (gate.volant.org [207.111.218.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44B143D46 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:54:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from adsl-065-081-071-131.sip.gnv.bellsouth.net ([65.81.71.131] helo=[192.168.1.121]) by smtp.volant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1GFFr0-00011Q-7E; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:57:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:50:14 -0400 From: Pat Lashley To: Fredrik Lindberg , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <44E9F991.7020309@shapeshifter.se> References: <44E9F991.7020309@shapeshifter.se> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scan-Signature: 34689b30fd35368c46f018b3f3e3df493d3bfb2a X-Spam-User: nobody X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Spam-Score-Int: -40 X-Spam-Report: This mail has matched the spam-filter tests listed below. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for details about the specific tests reported. In general, the higher the number of total points, the more likely that it actually is spam. (The 'required' number of points listed below is the arbitrary number above which the message is normally considered spam.) Content analysis details: (-4.1 points total, 5.0 required) 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.1 HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED BODY: HTML font color is red -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0009] 0.4 DATE_IN_PAST_03_06 Date: is 3 to 6 hours before Received: date 0.2 AWL AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Zeroconfig and Multicast DNS X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:54:40 -0000 > In short, zeroconfig allows a host to automatically negotiate > a collision free ip-address with other hosts on the network in the > absence of a DHCP-server. It's suitable for small ad-hoc networks, > or in embedded solutions. Actually, that is IPv4 Link Local Addressing. Zeroconfig includes that, Multicast DNS, Service Discovery and anything else that removes the need for manual configuration. I'm very glad to hear that somebody is working on IPv4 Link Local for FreeBSD. > Multicast DNS is DNS without a server, you can think of it as mixing > ... Doesn't the net/mDNSResponder port handle both mDNS and (m)DNS-based service discovery? Is it missing some functionality that can't be easily handled by a wrapper? (E.g. An nss_mdns that uses their libdns_sd.so) -Pat