On 2/24/06, Sjoerd Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:38:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > [Ccing maintainers of mdns stuff, please followup to debian-devel] > > > > With avahi in unstable we seem to have a fairly capable set of > > zeroconf/mdns tools in Debian now, albeit with some holes. There are for > > example some things like mod_dnssd that are not packaged yet and some > > interesting patches that aren't applied to some apps. And adding mdns > > to /etc/nsswitch.conf is still being worked out. > > Mod_dnssd is in NEW currently, so that should resolve itself pretty soon. > Having mdns in /etc/nsswitch would be great. > > > I would like to investigate the possibility of adding a task to tasksel > > that fully sets up a system to prticipate in a zeroconf network. That > > would mean, you pick this task and you can resolve mdns names; if you > > installed a desktop, the desktop supports mdns; if you installed a web > > server or ssh server those services are published via mdns etc. There > > is still some integration work to do before that's possible, but it's my > > goal.
About ssh, ssh doesn't have a built-in support for zeroconf, but uses avahi.service(5) to indirectly publish its zeroconf service. Maybe this file "ssh.service" should be installed by the openssh-server package. Other packages could do the same: ntp for example. > > Sound great. > > > I think a team to work on this stuff would be useful. Right now there > > seems to be no coordinated effort to put everything together and fill in > > the holes, just various people working on their own peices. While that > > scattershot approach has worked ok so far, getting everyone together > > integrating stuff could improve things a lot. > > > > If people agree let me know and I can do the standard alioth dance. > > Sounds good. We've been doing avahi and mod-dnssd in pkg-utopia on alioth, but > i've no problems with switching them to a another (better suited?) > project or work together in pkg-utopia. > > Sjoerd > -- > Life is the childhood of our immortality. > -- Goethe > -- Sebastien Estienne
