> On Mar 29, 2016, at 2:47 AM, Quinn The Eskimo! <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28 Mar 2016, at 02:48, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Is that supposed to happen?
> 
> Yes.  Think of the analogous case with IPv4: if you register a service in 
> "local.", you want the service registered with your standard IPv4 address.

Do you? I'm not clear on why you'd want local services resolved to internet 
routable IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. I thought the whole point of the local domain 
was to restrict it to link-local. I don't know whether I've seen the IPv4 case, 
because it's more difficult to get a global IPv4 address from behind a router 
than it is to get a global IPv6 address.


>> And is there any way to stop it?
> 
> Definitely not at the NSNetService layer.
> 
> At the DNS-SD layer (<dns_sd.h>) you have a lot more flexibility.  For 
> example, you could register your own A record (DNSServiceRegisterRecord) and 
> then register your service with that name as its host (the `host` parameter 
> to DNSServiceRegister).  I've never tried this myself but I can't see why it 
> wouldn't work.

Thanks. I'll take a look. It may be more trouble than it's worth, but it's good 
to know there are options.


> Overall, however, I think you'd be better off nagging the folks with the 
> broken client to fix their connection code.

Heh, well, that's a bit tricky, to say the least.


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