Yeah that was the one. I thought mDNS was just DNS packets sent over UDP
multicast? With a library that can parse DNS packets we should be able to
see mDNS packets in userspace, no?


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> While HTTP traffic is event-driven, the initial DNS lookup is done
> >> from inside the thread pool.  That's because we use getaddrinfo(3)
> >> instead of c-ares, mostly because the latter doesn't support things
> >> like mDNS (think Bonjour, Avahi, etc.).  I may switch it to
> >> getaddrinfo_a(3) on Linux someday but other platforms will keep on
> >> using the thread pool.
> >
> >
> > Didn't I see somewhere a Node DNS library written in pure Node? That
> might
> > be useful...
>
> You mean [1]?  It has the same issue as c-ares in that it doesn't
> integrate with platform-specific services.  mDNS is one but there are
> others, like NIS or NSS.
>
> [1] https://github.com/tjfontaine/node-dns
>
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