Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-02 Thread Steve Simon
that would not work, because of how dns(1) presents its interface. if the file server presented a directory of files then you can merge them. however dns has a single file that you open, write a request to, and then later read a reply from. in this later form you merge the directories you just

Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-02 Thread Marc Boschma
That makes perfect sense… So dns(1) should probably be patched then…? Marc > On 2 Jan 2016, at 8:21 pm, Steve Simon wrote: > > that would not work, because of how dns(1) presents its interface. > > if the file server presented a directory of files then you can merge

Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-01 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 1 19:32:25 PST 2016, m...@boschma.cx wrote: > > > On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon wrote: > > anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? > > > > No, but I have an interest; just starting out with Plan9 :) > > > my rough plan is to write a

[9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-01 Thread Steve Simon
anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? my rough plan is to write a file server which generates /lib/ndb/mdns which can be included into your /lib/ndb/local. I fear the biggest hassle is the clash of UDP port use may mean mDNS must become part of dns(1) rather than a separate

Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-01 Thread Marc Boschma
> On 2 Jan 2016, at 7:05 am, Steve Simon wrote: > anyone done any work to implement mDNS / bonjour on plan9? > No, but I have an interest; just starting out with Plan9 :) > my rough plan is to write a file server which generates /lib/ndb/mdns > which can be included into

Re: [9fans] bonjour mDNS?

2016-01-01 Thread Marc Boschma
Still getting my head around Plan9 but wouldn’t mounting the unicast and multicast DNS file servers over the top of each other work? (I assume the order of the mount (bind) would lead to resolution order… but maybe no unified responses. Marc > On 2 Jan 2016, at 2:42 pm, erik quanstrom