[OmniOS-discuss] dns/multicast

[Ben Summers]

On 23 Jul 2013, at 02:39, Carlos Cardenas <cardenas12 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone gotten the mdns pkg working with sshd and other services auto registering?  This is on top of resolving nodes.
> 
> I have the service enabled but must manually register services via dns-sd.  My /etc/nsswitch.conf has mdns for the appropriate items.

We use mDNS very successfully for development VMs: http://bens.me.uk/2013/multicast-dns-and-development-virtual-machines

But why do you need to do service discovery? mDNSResponder will automatically broadcast `hostname`.local, and you just ssh or whatever to that hostname.

Ben



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