The search is never finished until you decide it is by cancelling the browse.

Bonjour sends multicasts queries with an exponential backoff, up to some 
maximum amount of time. When a Bonjour service is advertised/registered on an 
interface, a multicast is sent out as well. As long as you have that browser 
open, Bonjour will keep watching for a matching service to appear, either as a 
response to one of the multicasts it sends or through an announcement sent by a 
device arriving on the networking or starting the service.

The only alternative is a timeout and timeouts are bad.

-josh

> On Nov 16, 2017, at 10:36 AM, James Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If I use -[NSNetServiceBrowser searchForServicesOfType:inDomain:] and there 
> happen to be no services of the specified type, my delegate gets 
> netServiceBrowserWillSearch:, but nothing else.  How can I know when the 
> search is finished?
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