[Psi-Devel] Iris via svn:externals

[Justin Karneges]

On Tuesday 29 July 2008 13:46:59 Damjan wrote:
> >   - You don't need to restart Psi if your DNS servers change.
> >   - Psi can resolve ".local" domains using Multicast DNS.
>
> On its own or it will use the platform support for that (avahi on Linux
> - actually avahi has a plugin for the glibc resolver, so ussualy on
>   Linux with avahi installed that just works).

It will use platform support if we've written the code for it, otherwise Iris' 
built-in library (jdns) is used.  For now, the only platform support we have 
is the 'appledns' backend which uses the dns_sd.h API.  This is only built on 
Mac, though in theory it could work on Windows platforms with Apple Bonjour 
installed.

The 'appledns' backend can compile against the Avahi dns_sd wrapper, but it 
will spit out lots of warnings at runtime and I think the wrapper is 
incomplete.  So, for Linux, we may want a real Avahi backend.

-Justin