On Fri Jan 1 19:32:25 PST 2016, m...@boschma.cx wrote: > > > On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > > anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? > > > > No, but I have an interest; just starting out with Plan9 :) > > > my rough plan is to write a file server which generates /lib/ndb/mdns > > which can be included into your /lib/ndb/local. > > > > I fear the biggest hassle is the clash of UDP port use may mean > > mDNS must become part of dns(1) rather than a separate file server. > > > > Shouldn’t dns(1) only bind to unicast UDP port and thus mDNS could bind to > the multicast UDP port? > > Are you only considering resolution or also publishing services?
it would make sense to me to make a dnsudp request file server that manages requests, and fork (ha!) that task off to it. this file server would not care if it's querying normal dns, or mdns. - erik
