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authorrodent <rodent@pkgsrc.org>2013-04-07 20:49:31 +0000
committerrodent <rodent@pkgsrc.org>2013-04-07 20:49:31 +0000
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@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-The mDNSResponder project is a component of Bonjour,
-Apple's ease-of-use IP networking initiative:
-<http://developer.apple.com/bonjour/>
+The mDNSResponder project is a component of Bonjour, Apple's ease-of-use IP
+networking initiative: <http://developer.apple.com/bonjour/>
-Apple's Bonjour software derives from the ongoing standardization
-work of the IETF Zero Configuration Networking Working Group:
-<http://zeroconf.org/>
+Apple's Bonjour software derives from the ongoing standardization work of the
+IETF Zero Configuration Networking Working Group: <http://zeroconf.org/>
The Zeroconf Working Group has identified three requirements for Zero
Configuration Networking:
@@ -23,10 +21,3 @@ Requirement 3 is met by DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD).
Self-assigned link-local address capability has been available since
1998, when it first appeared in Windows '98 and in Mac OS 8.5.
Implementations for other platforms also exist.
-
-The mDNSResponder project allows us to meet requirements 2 and 3.
-It provides the ability for the user to identify hosts using names
-instead of dotted-decimal IP addresses, even if the user doesn't have a
-conventional DNS server set up. It also provides the ability for the
-user to discover what services are being advertised on the network,
-without having to know about them in advance, or configure the machines.