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diff --git a/doc/Zeroconf.txt b/doc/Zeroconf.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3f8f55e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Zeroconf.txt @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ + + ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server + + (c)2001-2005 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. + +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/ + + +-- +$Id: Zeroconf.txt,v 1.1 2005/07/08 16:19:03 alex Exp $ |