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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:45:28AM -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote:
>benjamin m. schwartz wrote:
> > Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > > The short of it is that mdns/dns-sd make sense for a small,
> > > underutilised network of peers. They assume that the network is a
> > > cheap resource, that broadcast messages are cheap, and that there
> > > is no coordinating server.
> >
> > mDNS assumes all of the above things. DNS-SD does not. DNS-SD is
> > perfectly happy to work on a standard DNS server. From the spec
> >
> > """
> > This document proposes no change to the structure of DNS
> > messages, and no new operation codes, response codes, resource
> > record types, or any other new DNS protocol values. This document
> > simply specifies a convention for how existing resource record
> > types can be named and structured to facilitate service
> > discovery.
> > """
> > (http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt)
>
>the last i looked at (and actually used) dns-sd to solve the
>discovery problem, it seemed that dns-sd development had stalled.
>(and i haven't had a reason to look since.) i believe we used
>code from Sun, which was all i could find at the time, and it
>wasn't what you'd call production ready. on the other hand, we
>were using it in a somewhat non-standard way -- in fact, we
>switched to mdns soon after because it fit our deployment model
>better, since we didn't really have a central server. the XS
>model may be a better fit.
>
>(this was all 3 or 4 years ago, btw.)
Here's my understanding:
* DNS-SD is a formalized use of DNS records to store services
(rather than hosts, the most popular use of DNS records).
* mDNS is DNS over multicast (using DNS-SD to resolve services).
So it seems to me that if you've switched from DNS-SD to mDNS, then in
fact you are still relying on DNS-SD, just using an additional layer on
top of it.
A good introduction (assumably more reliable than Wikipedia) is
http://www.dns-sd.org/
- Jonas
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