On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Jason Fritcher wrote:

Brian Granger wrote:

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I like this option as Apple's mDNS code is becoming very solid. Are the python bindings you mention available somewhere? I have thought about using mDNS with twisted for a project so any examples you can offer would be great.

I'm the one actually writing on the bindings. I'm trying to get permission from the company to open source them. There isn't anything proprietary there, but who knows what the legal department will say. :)

Currently, I have a straight through binding that ports the C API into python. In the near future, I'm going to be overhauling it into an OO API, and then integrating into Twisted. I'll be back with questions about Twisted when I get to that point. ;)

Alternatively, if you're using a Mac, it's pretty trivial to just use the NSNetService stuff. You're more or less stuck supporting the OS X APIs anyway if you want OS X support, since only one mDNS responder can run on a given machine (well, IP address). -bob

On 12 Jul 2005, at 05:57, Bob Ippolito wrote:

Alternatively, if you're using a Mac, it's pretty trivial to just use the NSNetService stuff. You're more or less stuck supporting the OS X APIs anyway if you want OS X support, since only one mDNS responder can run on a given machine (well, IP address).

You've got me worried now - I've been doing all my testing on this G5 running Panther. I haven't tried serving any mDNS records yet, but I can certainly watch all the traffic to and from the system-wide mDNS responder. If I've got this far, am I going to be OK or do you know of some other brick-wall I'll hit later on?