Hello, 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. > > 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. > > 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. >
I agree with the principle. I think zeroconf is a great thing for debian. I think the basic service that should be enabled : - printing with cups (apple has a patch for this), - instant messenger with gaim (there is a bonjour plugin for GAIM, but it doesn't seem to work great), - sharing data (maybe with gnome-vfs...) I really would like to see : - ssmtp with automatic realy to a real smtp (the smtp publish itself with zeroconf/mdns) - sane with hal+bonjour (ie when a scanner is plugged, there is a net backend which is published) - proxy configuration... Unfortunately i don't have enough time to give some help for this. But i really think it should be a great idea to have it in debian. Kind regard Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
