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--- multicastdns [2007/06/03 13:19] – FredrikLindberg
+++ multicastdns [2019/02/01 09:46] (current) – add to CategoryProject MateuszPiotrowski
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 ====== Multicast DNS ======
-[http://www.multicastdns.org/ Multicast DNS (mDNS)] is a part of Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf) and provides the ability to address hosts using DNS-like names without the need of an existing (unicast), managed DNS server.
+[[http://www.multicastdns.org/|Multicast DNS (mDNS)]] is a part of Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf) and provides the ability to address hosts using DNS-like names without the need of an existing (unicast), managed DNS server.
 The project is divided into two phases each with a set of sub-projects. The sub-projects in phase 1 is more or less
 listed in the order they will be implemented in (they depend on each other), sub-projects in phase 2 is not listed
 in the same order as they will be implemented.
-Focus and priority will initially be on phase 1 only.
-[:%%MulticastDNS%%/SOCproposal:Original %%SoC%% proposal]
+  * [[MulticastDNS/Quickstart|Quick start]] - If you want to play with it.
+  * [[MulticastDNS/SOCproposal|Original SoC proposal]]
+A public mercurial repository with snapshots is available at http://hg.h3q.net/mdns
 ===== Phase 1 =====
 ==== Multicast DNS responder (mdnsd) ====
+Status: Feature complete, requires testing and bugfixing.
 This is the core responder daemon, performs multicast dns queries on behalf of clients and acts as
 a unified cache to all clients.
 Provides the ability to announce its own mdns records onto the network.
-[:%%MulticastDNS%%/responderd:Details]
+[[MulticastDNS/responderd|Details]]
 ==== Client API (libmdns) ====
+Status: Working
 Provides a easy programming interface to the client side of responderd.
 Privileges operations include addition/removal of self-claimed records, while non-privileged operations
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 ==== NSS module ====
-Uses libmdns and hooks into the name-service switch system to expose mdns aware-versions of
+Status: Complete
-gethostby{name,name2,addr} and similar functions.
-Configuration file /etc/mdns.conf (similar to resolv.conf) will control the search space. Default would be .local
+Uses libmdns and hooks into the name-service switch system to expose mdns aware-versions of name lookup functions.
+Implements gethostby{name,name2,addr}, getaddrinfo and ghby{addr,name} (used by getipnodeby{name,addr} and getnameinfo).
+Configuration file /etc/mdns.conf (similar to resolv.conf) controld the search space. Default is .local and private ip-addresses.
 ==== Command line utility ====
+Status: Working
 Utility named mdns (or similar) to provide basic host name lookup for debugging purposes and
 to provide a way to dynamically add and remove self-claimed mdns records.
+It currently supports resolving names, add/remove/list names and resources and view/flush cache,
+its feature set is in sync with features provided by libmdns.
 ===== Phase 2 =====
 ==== Service Discovery integration ====
-(Need to do some more thinking on this part).
+Status: Not started (Open task)
-The current idea is to have a separate library say, libsd which would expose a common API to both
-multicast based service discovery and wide-area service discovery (unicast).
+Create an application to do both multicast (libmdns) and unicase service discovery.
+The previous idea with a separate library is probably overkill at the moment.
 ==== Avahi library wrapper (mdns_compat_avahi) ====
-A wrapper library around libmdns (and possibly libsd) to allow avahi-aware applications to work with mdns_responderd.
+Status: Not started (Open task)
+A wrapper library around libmdns to allow avahi-aware applications to work with mdns_responderd.
 It seems most normal avahi consumers performs queries through d-bus so this compat library will probably
 mimic this interface. The api avahi-core exposes will probably not be covered.
 ==== dns_sd library wrapper (mdns_compat_dns_sd) ====
+Status: Not started (Open task)
 A wrapper library around libmdns (and possibly libsd) to allow apple dns_sd-aware applications to work with mdns_responderd.
 The API header (dns_sd.h) is released by Apple under a BSD-license.
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