Re: tmdns implementation as a deamon

Perhaps you might like to consider looking at Apple's implementation of 
mdns - there is a port available for posix (which includes Linux)  as 
well as Windows and of course Mac OS.

It has been released under an open source license and could well be 
considered to be the 'standard' setting implementation.

Rob

On 28/07/2004, at 7:15 PM, Vincent Hamm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been investigating mDNS implementations recently and I'm mainly
> focused on service discovery.
>
> I've tried tmdns which seems the only real deamon linux implementation
> of mDNS and I ran into a bit of trouble. It seems to fail to open the
> multi-cast socket:
>
> Jul 28 10:01:33 belgarath tmdns[29971]: can not bind to device : No 
> such device
> Jul 28 10:01:33 belgarath tmdns[29971]: Could not bind to port :
> Address already in use
> Jul 28 10:01:33 belgarath tmdns[29971]: can not open sender socket for
> eth0/224.0.0.251#5353 : Address already in use
>
> Is there any kernel / firewall requirements regarding the use of tmdns
> (I'm not used to multicasting) ?
>
> My other question deals with service discovery. Is there any plan
> regarding the possibility of having user programs connecting to tmdns
> to request the advertisement of a service not defined in tmdns.service
> ?
>
> Anyway, good work so far. Tmdns seems to approach the groundwork I was
> looking for to perform real service discovery under linux.
>
> Vincent Hamm
>
>
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