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We need a basic DNS-SD client (and possibly server) on the nodes. One need for a client is for the node configurator.
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


= mdns-utils =
=Tools=
 
== [http://avahi.org/ avahi] ==
 
Features:
 
* Embeddable mDNS stack (i.e. mDNS stack available as library)
* Ability to reflect mDNS traffic between multiple subnets
* Ability to configure a unicast DNS server automatically from server data published on the LAN
* Wide area DNS-SD support (read-only for now)
 
== mdns-utils ==


The OpenWRT package mdns-utils is actually just compiling part of Apple's [http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/mDNSResponder/ mDNSResponder].
The OpenWRT package mdns-utils is actually just compiling part of Apple's [http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/mDNSResponder/ mDNSResponder].
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The code that outputs this line is in the file mDNSResponder/mDNSPosix/Client.c in the function BrowseCallback.
The code that outputs this line is in the file mDNSResponder/mDNSPosix/Client.c in the function BrowseCallback.
=Documentation=
[http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-55/presentations/strotmann-mdns.pdf New DNS technologies on the LAN]: mDNS, DNS-SD, LLMNR, PNRP
[http://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/DNS mesh DNS software]: HypeDNS vs decentralized servers
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