Hi all!
New in CVS-HEAD:
- ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the new switch "--enable-rendezvous" to configure.
The actual code only works with Mac OS X 10.2 and above (probably actual Darwin distributions work as well). It registers all ports ngIRCd is listening on as "_ircu._tcp." in the default domain using Apples multicast DNS API. See http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/ for further details about Apples implementation.
At the moment this functionality is quite useless, but perhaps sometimes in the future IRC clients will support Rendezvous as well!? Would be handy in LANs, I think. So we are prepared ;-))
If somebody is aware of multicast DNS daemons on other platforms, please let me know!
Regards Alex
On Sonntag, 23. Februar 2003 13:25 Uhr +0100 Alexander Barton alex@barton.de wrote:
- ngIRCd can register itself with Rendezvous: to enable support pass the new switch "--enable-rendezvous" to configure.
Ah, I forget to mention one nice tool: "RenBrowser". You can use it to browse the list of services registered with Rendezvous. Homepage: http://software.tangent.org/
Hint: Don't forget to add "_ircu._tcp." as service typ first, it doesn't know anything about this type out of the box! ;-)
Regards Alex
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Alexander Barton