Re: Caching of DNS records in tmdns

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Robin Perkins wrote:
>It seems that there are a few people putting out implementations - but
>they all seem to have their problems in one way or another. Whilst
>Apple do have an implementation that does provide a standard, it does
>have licensing  issues with distro's such as Debian that are picky.
>What I would like to see is one implementation (for say Free *nix),
>released under the GPL or BSD license, that provides a standard API
>for application developers - so we don't end up with an environment
>where we have multiple applications running a wide range of 'custom'
>zeroconf daemons, that are all incompatible (as in my understanding
>only one daemon can bind to port 5353 at a time).

As long as they all use SO_REUSEPORT they should be able to all coexist
bound to the same port.

Having a consistent API would certainly be nice.

Ian



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