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.

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.

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.

Provides a easy programming interface to the client side of responderd. Privileges operations include addition/removal of self-claimed records, while non-privileged operations are limited to basic host lookup routines.

Uses libmdns and hooks into the name-service switch system to expose mdns aware-versions of gethostby{name,name2,addr} and similar functions.

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.

A wrapper library around libmdns to allow avahi-aware applications to work with responderd.

A wrapper library around libmdns to allow apple mdns-aware applications to work with responderd.

[:ServiceDiscovery:Service Discovery] is a beast of its own.