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Weblog:   Advertising Rendezvous services in Linux
Subject:   why not use mDNSResponder instead of mdNSProxyResponder?
Date:   2003-05-09 16:35:51
From:   rflicken
Response to: why not use mDNSResponder instead of mdNSProxyResponder?

mDNSResponder won't let you advertise arbitrary IP addresses. It will only advertise local services, and in my case, I'm running the advertiser on a separate box from my web server.


But if you are advertising services on the same machine that they are served from, mDNSResponderPosix would do the trick nicely.
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  • why not use mDNSResponder instead of mdNSProxyResponder?
    2003-05-12 08:01:42  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

    I'm trying to write a redhat init script to turn the responder on and off. The daemonized version, how can I look up the PID to kill it (and therefore allow the script to respond to a "service rendezvous stop" command)?
    • Stopping the service
      2003-05-12 08:41:20  rflicken [Reply | View]

      The quickest way is to just run killall mDNSProxyResponder to kill the job by name. You could also do something like kill `ps ax|grep mDNSProxyResponder|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'` (although the first one is much simpler...)
      • Stopping the service
        2003-05-14 00:52:21  anonymous2 [Reply | View]

        The proper way to write an init script is to use the init.d functions in /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions by calling them at the start of the script. See other init scripts for an example.

        These functions handle all pid details for you, and more. Find more info on them at:

        http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.3.0/gLSB/gLSB/iniscrptfunc.html

        Steven Boger
        sboger@hotmail.com
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