Am Sonntag, 14. November 2004 23:18 schrieb Kilian Krause: > Hi Damien, > > Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2004, 19:58 +0100 schrieb Damien Sandras: > > Hi, > > > > there is still one crash when you change your info and click on Apply or > > make a call. That doesn't always happen, I'm investigating. > > searching around on http://www.multicastdns.org/ it seems that Multicast > DNS packets use UDP port 5353. So this service needs to be installed > alongside to regular BIND. mDNSresponder should be fine, however i > haven't yet tried much with it.. So far i just found out that SRV RRs in > mDNS regarded quite special to regular DNS and thus will not affect any > regular DNS infrastructure from what i read. DNS-SD (www.dns-sd.org) often uses mDNS, but does not need it - in theory, at least Apples implementation only works with mDNS, and as libhowl is based on Apples code ... > Point however is that it really sounds like every PC needs a local > multicast IP and thus will fail on *EVERY* regular (ipv4-only) > installation that does not insert some IP from the 239.255.0.0/16 range > to eth*. The only chance for hosts to automagically work in a LAN will > be IPv6 that does usually (if not disabled forcefully) set link-local > IPs by default. Yes, every host should run its own mDNS resolver, but it does not need any IP in the 239.255.0.0/16 range. Every host answers to multicast pings, (when the ip stack supports it), try "ping -c2 224.0.0.1" (implicit group of multicast capable hosts). Starting the mDNSresolver should add the host to the 224.0.0.251 multicast group (and I am almost shure this violates the multicast specification ...), and after that your host should answer to ping 224.0.0.251. > If someone could shed some light how the GM setup for a host is meant to > be and what a SOHO setup should look like and how it could be verified > (apparently not with regular dnsutils), i'd be thankful for some > pointers.. I'd definitely add this to the official or inofficial FAQ > with some pointers how to debug problems. howl includes a mDNS browser IIRC ... Stefan -- Stefan Brüns / Kastanienweg 6 - Zimmer 1206 / 52074 Aachen mailto:lurch gmx li http://www.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de/~lurchi/ phone: +49 241 169-4206 mobile: +49 160 3797725
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