Re: LookupDiscovery MulticastTimeToLive

Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Brouwer wrote:
> Rikard Elofsson wrote:
>> Mark Brouwer skrev:
>>> In case you have shared services they can join the lookup services of
>>> all the developers. This way clients see the developer specific services
>>> as well as the shared services."
>>> If the above is not clear or or there are reasons why this wouldn't work
>>> in your environment please let me know.
>>
>> OK something like that could work I guess or using unicast when
>> developing or similar but my problem is that it has to work sooner or
>> later when deployed "for real" so an explanation to what is wrong would
>> be very nice... Is it a)a bug (unlikely) or is it b)me not understanding
>> (more likely)?
>
> I shamefully admit I've never configured the TTL so I have no experience
> with it, but although Dan's response suggest otherwise it was my
> understanding too a TTL of 0 wouldn't let the packets escape the host
> (some Multicast IPv4 FAQ confirms this), but I've no idea what kind of
> issues there are with the various IP stacks and whether there is a
> difference with regard to IPv4/IPv6.

Yep - there's the rub - I should've been clearer that I was using a "Dan
rule of thumb" not "what the specs" say because I've seen various stacks
(I have a list somewhere) that don't behave correctly in respect of
various aspects of multicast behaviour including TTL.....

> --
> Mark
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