ngircd/doc/Zeroconf.txt

                     ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server

                        (c)2001-2006 Alexander Barton
                    alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/

               ngIRCd is free software and published under the
                   terms of the GNU General Public License.

			      -- Zeroconf.txt --


ngIRCd supports one aspect of Zeroconf Networking[1]: Multicast DNS (mDNS[2])
with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD[3]).

To use this features you can use one of two APIs:

  a) Apple "Bonjour" API as used by Mac OS X,
  b) the Howl[4] Zeroconf library or the Howl compatibility layer
     of the newer Avahi[5] library.

When calling the configure script using the "--with-zeroconf" switch the
avalable API will be autodetected and the required additional libraries will
be linked to the ngircd binary as required.

ngIRCd then registers a DNS-SD service for each port it is listening on using
the service type "_ircu._tcp.".


Links:

 [1] http://www.zeroconf.org/
 [2] http://www.multicastdns.org/
 [3] http://www.dns-sd.org/
 [4] http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/
 [5] http://avahi.org/


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$Id: Zeroconf.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $