On 2008-04-09, Khalid Schofield  wrote:

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>> I tried this a while ago too and didn't succeed.

>> The package you are looking for containing mDNSResponder and friends

>> is called "howl".

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> Fantastic! I was begging for this information :) You've made my day!

howl is no longer developed.. A user on ports@ mentioned working

on avahi, it might be worth following this up.
>> I did not spend a lot of time trying to make this work

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>> and I think I had problems with howl using broadcasts.

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> Argh broadcast. Makes my guts ache thinking of netBIOS...... Is that

> what the apple bonjour technology is? Just loads of broadcast?

Multicast. One thing that might cause confusion is the -reject

routes added by default (if multicast_host/multicast_router is not

set in rc.conf.local)....