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On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 23:10, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:19:38PM +0100 or thereabouts, tigger@g.o wrote: |
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> > So, does anyone have any ideas how a machine could find out where a the |
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> > gold server is on its network when it boots? |
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> One idea that came up on the irc channel was using zeroconf (aka Apple |
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> Rendezvous). Does anyone here have any experience w/ zeroconf? |
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> --kurt |
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The rendevous that i've been working with has mainly been using apples |
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propriatry code, but I spent a few minutes working on this tonight, |
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using the MDNSD code, available from [ http://dotlocal.org/mdnsd/ ] |
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After compiling this with the Instructions from the makefile, you can |
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advertise a machine with Rendevous by using the below command. |
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./mhttp 'Gentoo Server Project - Gold Server' 'www.subverted.net' 80 |
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'/index.html' |
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Replacing www.subverted.net with the IP (so that unconfigured DNS clients |
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can still resolve them) of the gold server. |
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This will then show up in rendevous/zeroconf like the screenshot below. |
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(sorry its pdf, my apologies in advance). |
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PTR _http._tcp.local. for 68 seconds to Gentoo Server Project - Gold |
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Server._http._tcp.local. |
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You can then query this information by issuing the command |
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./mquery 12 _http._tcp.local. |
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which will brign out all the http advertised daemons. |
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It is important to note that although there are other implementations |
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available, I would reccomend against using them, because of licencing |
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issues. |
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Although this only works for port 80 (www), im sure one of our more |
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talented C coders could whip this up for a GSP implementation. |
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Wade Mealing |
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