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  1. ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
  2. (c)2001-2006 Alexander Barton
  3. alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
  4. ngIRCd is free software and published under the
  5. terms of the GNU General Public License.
  6. -- Zeroconf.txt --
  7. ngIRCd supports one aspect of Zeroconf Networking[1]: Multicast DNS (mDNS[2])
  8. with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD[3]).
  9. To use this features you can use one of two APIs:
  10. a) Apple "Bonjour" API as used by Mac OS X,
  11. b) the Howl[4] Zeroconf library or the Howl compatibility layer
  12. of the newer Avahi[5] library.
  13. When calling the configure script using the "--with-zeroconf" switch the
  14. avalable API will be autodetected and the required additional libraries will
  15. be linked to the ngircd binary as required.
  16. ngIRCd then registers a DNS-SD service for each port it is listening on using
  17. the service type "_ircu._tcp.".
  18. Links:
  19. [1] http://www.zeroconf.org/
  20. [2] http://www.multicastdns.org/
  21. [3] http://www.dns-sd.org/
  22. [4] http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/
  23. [5] http://avahi.org/
  24. --
  25. $Id: Zeroconf.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $