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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 $