Re: OTListen in OS 9
Re: OTListen in OS 9
- Subject: Re: OTListen in OS 9
- From: Eric Gundrum <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:09:44 -0700
--- At 3:18 PM -0400 5/16/03, Lyndsey Ferguson wrote:
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Thanks for you input. To clarify, each program is in fact a client and
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server program. This is meant to be a cross-platform (Macintosh/Windows)
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program that authenticates that it is the only program on the LAN using a
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serial number. I think it would be very bad and possibly disallowed by a
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LAN router to broadcast to the general internet.
I think you are correct about how routers handle broadcasts.
What you describe is very similar to the NBP-Lookup-based mechanism many
Macintosh software programs used when AppleTalk was our dominant network. I
think dns-sd <
http://www.dns-sd.org/> is intended to provide the same
capabilities as NBP-Lookup. You might find some value in examining dns-sd.
At the very least, you will find folks much more reluctant to close the
relevant ports because they would loose all the other services which rely
on dns-sd. And you get the benefit of developing expertise with a standard
protocol, which you might find useful for other tasks.
Regards...eric
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