Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.
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ipad mdns/bonjour not responding
I am developing an app to get information on network devices.
I have seen two different ipads get into a state where they are not sending out bonjour/mDNS traffic.
I used wireshark and did not see any broadcast traffic from the ipads at all.
I have…

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What is the limit to the number of simultaneous connections in Bonjour?
I'm developing an iPhone app that allows users to connect to other iPhones using the Bonjour protocol. One of the users hosts a server and publishes his bonjour service and the other client users discover his service and connect to it to exchange…

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Do I need to have a license agreement with Apple if my iPhone app uses Bonjour?
I have an iPhone app which allows multiple iPhones to connect to each other and send messages. The app uses Bonjour and makes use of some of the CF Networking classes to publish, discover and connect to Bonjour services. My app does not display the…

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Example of DNSServiceRegister and DNSServiceBrowse for iOS5 Bonjour through bluetooth communication
I am looking for an example code that shows how to use DNSServiceRegister to register a service with a Bonjour and an example code that shows how to correctly use DNSServiceBrowse to discover services.
I am aware of the docs, which I have read and…

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How to find Bonjour in local wifi in Android
I have a problem that I want to get an Ip of remote computer via Bonjour which is preinstalled . But I unable to connect with that, I don't know why because I have download an example code from Git Hub and also download the jmdns3.4.1 Jar. But the…

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Why are TXT Records set to nil when using NWBrowser for Network.framework?
I'm trying to get a list of Bonjour services running on my local network using Network.framework in Swift for my iOS application. In order to discover devices that are using the same protocol version as my application running, I need to be able to…

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Bonjour/ZeroConf Implementation for Android(HoneyComb)
I am trying to implement bonjour/zero conf on my android app for Android tablet using Honeycomb. I am using jmDns library for searching the all the available devices. I need a list of android devices connected to wifi.
Basically, i am adding them…

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AirPrint and Bonjour
Do I have to use an Apple AirPrint capable printer to use AirPrint in my iPad app?
Can't I just set up a shared Bonjour print service on a Mac and connect to that?

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Publishing a web service with Bonjour
The scenario
I am building a hybrid app, using Phonegap. I have an SQLite database (students) with a table(namelist) containing list of names inside the project. From JavaScript, I can't execute an SQL query.
The need
On a button click event in the…

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iOS/iPhone How to ping a server ip address?
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I create a Bonjour browser to find local server,I can collect many host name,and parser the IP.
But when the network is not stable , I can't find any server in local network...
But if you use ping to find server , it never failed to get…

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Cocoa Touch Bonjour how to deal with NSNetService addresses and uint8_t
I'm attempting to make an iOS app communicate with a server that uses Bonjour and uses HTTP commands. So far I have been able to find the local domain and locate the particular service I'm looking for. I am able to resolve the address of the…

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Is there any way to get the list of connected scanners from a client side LAN (Using Javascript) in an MVC application?
We are working on an MVC application to scan the document from a twain direct based scanner which is installed in a LAN.
For the discovery of connected scanners, we are using Bonjour which exposes the list of scanners. The scanner (twain direct)…

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UDP Listener on iOS 14
I have a question regarding how to set up a UDP listener on iOS 14. I have a UDP listener which has worked in the past, but after updating to iOS 14 it works sporadically/not at all.
This lives in an NSObject, and listens for a UDP broadcast across…

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vb.net bonjour not setting txtrecord values
Her is the code I am trying to run:
Private NSRegistrar As New Bonjour.DNSSDService
Dim txtRecord As New Bonjour.TXTRecord
txtRecord.SetValue("publicKey", "ydy56dy65dy665yv65dvy65")
txtRecord.SetValue("privateKey",…

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Can't connect from Android to bonjour service, hosted on iMac
My goal is to find all bonjour services in WIFI network, find their ip/port, and communicate through HTTP.
Bonjour service, hosted on iMac is discovered incorrectly - service name is found, but port = 0, InetAddress[] = null.
Connection to the same…

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