Multicast DNS Quickstart

Obtain the code, either through perforce or grab the latest snapshot. The code should compile fine on both current and 6-STABLE.

Note that this is NOT production ready yet

If anything crashes or misbehaves, please try to obtain a backtrace from gdb

> cd mdnsd
> make

If you want it to announce and claim records for your hostname you need to supply a configuration file, the default should do fine.

./mdnsd -f mdnsd.conf.sample

It's quite noisy as most debugging is still enabled, you can change the output by manipulating the DEBUG_MASK in mdnsd/Makefile. Debugging masks are defined in mdnsd/debug.h If your hostname is foobar, the name foobar.local. will be claimed as yours and you should be able to use this name from another mDNS enabled machine (example Mac OS X client) to contact your machine.

Note that you need to start mdnsd as root if you want to be able to use libmdns, this is because the pipe is created in /var/run/mdnsd.pipe. It's possible to drop privileges with the -u and -g flags.

./mdnsd -f mdnsd.conf.sample -u nobody -g nobody