I also moved the code from oscit in http://github.com/rubyk/zconf (a simple
wrapper for ZeroConf and Avahi).

We will see what proves best, wrappers around mdns or a custom made service
discovery on top of ZeroMQ + openPGM...

G.

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Kelly Brock <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> > >        Actually, the latest Bonjour distro's for Win32 and OsX both
> > > directly include easy Wan setup.  Just add the external domain to your
> > prefs
> > > page and it simply works.  I use this when I work from home and just
> > link my
> > > local boxes to my work domain so I can get services started locally
> > which I
> > > can then debug against but still using the full production environment.
> >   It
> > > used to be a real pain as you mention, but they seem to have fixed it
> > up.
> >
> > That is great news, I haven't looked at this stuff for a while.
> >
> > >> For zeromq based apps and servers, it would be quite nice to have a
> > >> zeromq based naming service and I have often though about writing one
> > >> myself.  But, because of the security issues, such a naming service
> > >> won't be as useful on the WAN quite yet.
> > >>
> > >> In summary, on the LAN both zeroconf and a zeromq based naming service
> > >> both make good sense.  On the WAN, neither do right now.
> > >
> > >        At this point I'll just say that ZeroConf, once you have a
> decent
> > > wrapper, is still my favorite solution.  No futzing around, it just
> > tends to
> > > work.
> >
> > Yep.
>
>         Just as a note, I threw up a very quick extraction of my zeroconf
> wrapper on github at: http://github.com/All8Up/zeroconf.  This is
> currently
> just the interfaces converted to not use my hobby framework which includes
> a
> lot of dependencies which would be undesirable.  (Currently lacking in the
> records interface, I want to redo that part.)  Obviously it is useless at
> this stage but I wanted to see what folks thought about this interface
> instead of a custom rewrite.
>
>        Raid the select poller from Zmq and it can be functional on
> Win32/BSD/OsX in probably a matter of hours; it would even work on Linux if
> you install the bonjour mdns daemon which I "believe" functions side by
> side
> with Avahi.  It is easily wrapped up in a C interface so it can be used
> pretty much anywhere.
>
>        Anyway, it's a starting point thought instead of trying to write a
> reimplementation of something which works perfectly well and is fairly well
> supported.  Avahi support is the real trick as I mentioned previously, but
> it's not that much work.
>
> KB
>
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