[OSC_dev] zeroconf, namespace querying

Andy W. Schmeder andy at cnmat.berkeley.edu
Sun Feb 24 18:34:23 PST 2008


On Feb 24, 2008, at 4:50 PM, remy muller wrote:

> Andy W. Schmeder a écrit :
>> Question--does zeroconf/mDNS let one use dynamic port numbers?  It  
>> seems
>> like that would be a major advantage to this approach when multiple
>> copies of a service are running.
>
> what do you mean by dynamic port numbers?

e.g. high # ports assigned by the OS instead of being hard-coded into  
the application.


> One nice mDNS feature in the case of multiple instances of the same
> service (on 2 machines for example) is that it automatically appends
> numbers at the end of service's names to avoid name clashes.

Yes, that is a nice feature...


A.

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