Difference between revisions of "Mesh/Firmware/Zeroconf"

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We need a basic DNS client (and server) on the nodes. We want to use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Location_Protocol Service Location Protocol] (SLP) to implement a domain service. The domain server returns a service (or files) from a destination (typically based on an IP address), such as google.com resolves the servers at the 74.125.224.65 address.  
We need a basic DNS client (and server) on the nodes. We want to use the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Location_Protocol Service Location Protocol] (SLP) to implement a domain service. The domain server returns a service (or files) from a destination (typically based on an IP address), such that the domain server resolves google.com at the 74.125.224.65 address.  


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* Embeddable mDNS stack (i.e. mDNS stack available as library)
* Embeddable mDNS stack (i.e. mDNS stack available as library)
* Ability to reflect mDNS traffic between multiple subnets
* Ability to reflect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS mDNS] traffic between multiple subnets
* Ability to configure a unicast DNS server automatically from server data published on the LAN
* Ability to configure a unicast DNS server automatically from server data published on the LAN
* Wide area DNS-SD support (read-only for now)
* Wide area DNS-SD support (read-only for now)
* Interface to GLIBC NSS using [http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/ nss-mdns]


== mdns-utils ==
== mdns-utils ==
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