zeroconf

[Sebastian M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=sch]

Hi,

Sam Tygier wrote:
> i have a powerbook(ti, G4 1ghz, 15", ati) and a via epia MII both run fairly
> uptodate hoary. they are on a wireless network using dhcp on a linksys router.
> i'd can ssh from the powerbook to the epia and run rhythmbox so that the
> powerbook is like a big remote control (or the epia is like a big airport
> express). the trouble is i need to know the ip address of the epia. i have
> used macos x, and it seems to use zeroconf or rendezvous as they (used to)
> call it, to let you give each computer a hostname (titania and flute in this
> case) and use titania.local or flute.local as domain names that expand to the
> dynamic ip address. i have installed mdnsresponder (this seems to be something
> to do with it) as on both machines, but still can even ping flute.local.

> what am i doing wrong/ missing out?

Understanding what you are doing? You just installed a server which answers
to a broadcast request from a client like this:

Question from mdns-client: "Is there somebody out there?"
Answer from the mdnsresponder: "I am here, and I've got the following
services for you."

So you still need the client who's asking the responder and not the dns ;-)

> is this even possible

There is a plugin for the gnu name service switch ...

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/

...  which should be easy to use. But be aware, that maybe not all programs
make use of nss.

cu
Sebastian 

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