[Olsr-dev] mDNS plugin new features ready for push

[ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)]

There is a paper where I explain everything:
http://zioproto.ninux.org/download/publications/mdns-plugin-paper.pdf

ciao,

Saverio


2012/7/23 Hans-Christoph Steiner <(spam-protected)>:
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> Sounds very specific, what use case do you have in mind for it?  How does this compare to the BMF plugin/
>
> .hc
>
> On Jul 22, 2012, at 2:34 PM, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
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>> Hello Hans,
>>
>> please note that the mDNS plugin let's the hosts on not-olsr networks
>> attached to the OLSR router (and usually announced via HNA entries) to
>> use mDNS across the mesh. Read carefully the README in the mdns folder
>> to discover more.
>>
>> it is a different thing about the mDNS messages generated from the
>> OLSR router. The plugin is not able to intercept those messages.
>> If you dig in the archives of the mailing list you will find an
>> attempt to do this, configuring the local avahi-demon to use the
>> loopback interface. However it did not work out back at the time.
>>
>> In other words, if your Android Cell-Phone is also the OLSR router, it
>> will not work to use mDNS.
>> If your Adroid phone is connected to a AP, that is further connected
>> to a OLSR backbone, then mDNS is what you need :)
>>
>> ciao,
>>
>> Saverio
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/22 Hans-Christoph Steiner <(spam-protected)>:
>>>
>>> I don't know enough about that code to comment on it, but I'm happy to
>>> see mDNS support in development!  We plan on including it in own Android
>>> client so that people can do XMPP-Bonjour chat across a mesh.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On 07/22/2012 10:44 AM, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> my student successfully finished the GSoC mid-term with just a few
>>>> days of delay on his schedule.
>>>>
>>>> please look at this work on mDNS plugin:
>>>> https://github.com/zioproto/olsrd-gsoc2012/commits/mDNS-plugin-GSOC
>>>>
>>>> it looks stable to us, but the more eyeballs the better
>>>>
>>>> we would like to push it into stable before the 0.6.4 release.
>>>>
>>>> if there are not negative feedback I will push it in a few days after
>>>> we finish a more extensive testing.
>>>>
>>>> ciao :)
>>>>
>>>> Saverio
>>>>
>>>> PS we are now moving on more work on the metrics that has nothing to
>>>> do with the mDNS plugin.
>>>>
>>>
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