C. Scott Ananian wrote: >> When I read the Zeroconf book, I got the impression that the >> _standard_ was carefully designed to minimize needless broadcasts and >> scale well in real scenarios. I can't comment on the current Avahi >> _implementation_ though. > > This is true for wired networks; not necessarily true for mobile > and/or wireless networks.
IEEE chose to make wi-fi networks look like 802.11 LANs, similar to ethernet. It might have been a bad idea in retrospect, but now we have to live with it. AFAIK, the bulk of the problem with multicasts over 802.11s (and not all wi-fi networks) is that those must be propagated at the slowest possible link speed in order to reach all nodes. > Like Martin, you are confusing mDNS with DNS-SD. Ok, but how would the laptops advertise their SRV records without multicast DNS? Wait, are you perhaps suggesting to use DDNS to publish those services on a nameserver running on the XS? -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
