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Re: How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname?
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Re: How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname?


  • Subject: Re: How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname?
  • From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 15:52:30 -0500

> On Dec 20, 2016, at 2:11 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It looks as though this just returns the first component of the name, which needs to have “.local” appended; is this correct?
>

Hi Jens - this may be pertinent to your interests:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1228/_index.html

It suggests against using SCDynamicStoreCopyLocalHostName to create a Bonjour hostname. I’m not sure if there is any practical scenario where assuming SCDynamicStoreCopyLocalHostName would not be the same as the Bonjour hostname, would be true.

I wonder if Quinn might have an up-to-date opinion on the validity of that advice. Taking it literally, I would think that the most reliable way to tell the “Bonjour name” for a device would be to register an NSNetService with @“” for the name, and then query it upon resolution:

{
...
	_service = [[NSNetService alloc] initWithDomain:@""// 1
                                    type:@"_music._tcp"
                                    name:@""
                                    port:0];
	[_service setDelegate:self];
	[_service publish];
}

Then in a delegate callback:

- (void)netServiceDidPublish:(NSNetService *)sender
{
	NSLog(@"Got computer name %@", [sender name]);
}

Daniel
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 >How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname? (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname? (From: "Quinn \"The Eskimo!\"" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How do I find the device's Bonjour hostname? (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)

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