On 2/9/07, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9 Feb 2007, at 15:40, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
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> I recently read ZeroConf stuff because GNUstep start to support it. > Then I realize ZeroConf only help me to find another IP. > I still need to use whatever protocol or distributed objects to > transfer data. > I haven't look into the details yet. The iChat way is to use an XMPP-like protocol in a peer-to-peer fashion. A better solution would be to have a local Jabber server and just use ZeroConf for the reverse-DNS lookup required for server- to-server communication. Then all you need to do is add a mechanism for adding people on the local network to a local roster group.
One thing I don't quite understand is how do iChat resolve the Jabber ID through ZeroConf if a computer is not connected to internet and DNS server is not available ? In other word, how to run a jabber server on ZeroConf ? This is the only document I can find: http://xurble.org/weblog/2005/08/bonjour-ichats-use-of-xmpp-jabber.html And if a jabber server is running locally, how do other people on internet can resolve my local jabber ID ? The bottom line is that if there is an existing Jabber server which supports ZeroConf, things will be much eaiser. Otherwise, I don't see it happens anytime soon. :P Yen-Ju _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
