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diff --git a/net/mDNSResponder/DESCR b/net/mDNSResponder/DESCR index 33481f81181..e23abd5927a 100644 --- a/net/mDNSResponder/DESCR +++ b/net/mDNSResponder/DESCR @@ -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. |