Hey there Christopher. Howl uses the core mDNSResponder code that has
been made public by Apple. It extends the Apple offering by
implementing messaging between mDNSResponder clients, and an
mDNSResponder daemon. This is a far superior solution than compiling
in mDNS functionality into every application that wants to do service
discovery.
As for the APIs...Howl has been ported to Mac OS X (and talks to
Apple's mDNSResponder), so while it's APIs are slightly different than
Apple's, it presents a consistent API across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux,
FreeBSD, Solaris, and any other platform Howl has been, or will be,
ported to.
Hope this helps, and let me know if you have any other questions.
Take care,
Scott
On Feb 12, 2004, at 1:03 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
I've been playing around with zeroconf on Linux for a little bit now,
and so far I've been working with howl. I was wondering if anyone could
describe the pros and cons of continuing to use it, or using mdnsd in
Darwin CVS which apparenly can run on Linux. I know they are both are
far from production ready, and that mdnsd has an API which is the same
as the standard API on OS X, but beyond that, I don't know much about
the relative merits of either.
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Christopher Smith <email@hidden>
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