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Multicast DNS is a method for (generally) small networks to advertise services without user configuration. The two popular implementations are bonjour (used by Apple systems) avahi (used by linux)

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LLMNR (Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution) Java responder

Do you know if exists a Java library for LLMNR responder? I looked for jmDns library but it seems designed only for Bonjour services. If not I may make a UDP responder, but exists a library for parse/write DNS records?
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Why doesn't the QNAME for this DNS q. end with a NULL character?

I was monitoring port 5353 (mDNS) with WireShark and came across the following DNS question: According to section 4.1.2 of RFC 1035 QNAME is: a domain name represented as a sequence of labels, where each label consists of a length octet followed…
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Resolve mDNS .local URL in browser address bar

I am trying to run a HTTP server in my LAN and want to access it by using a browser on another desktop machine. As I do not like typing the IP address and port manually I tried setting up a mDNS using jmDNS. String type =…
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How to find mDNS instance name on chrome packaged apps?

I'm using this example chrome app as base to browse mDNS. It is working quite well and gives me service name and IP of the service provider but I'm unable to find the human readable service instance name.
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Android mDNS TXT record

I am trying to access the mDNS TXT record in an android App using "Network Service Discovery" APIs. Basically my app needs to discover the services and access the TXT record from them. How to access the mDNS TXT record from the android Network…
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How do I find out my multicast (Bonjour) hostname?

I've registered a record using the Bonjour API. Now I want to know the contents of the record I just published. I created it by specifying a NULL hostname, meaning, "use the daemon's default", but I can't find a simple way to query what that…
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MDNS subdomains with Avahi

I have a machine running avahi-daemon on Ubuntu Jaunty. It's currently responding to requests for itself on hostname.local, but I would like it to run a webapp that ends up publishing MDNS addresses for other hosts which aren't on the local network.…
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ESP8266 DNS Lookup with Hostname ending in ".local"

Three or more years ago, I made an Arduino project for a NodeMCU (ESP8266) that connected to my MQTT server. I needed to make some changes to the code (unrelated), rebuilt, and was unable to connect to my MQTT server! After doing some…
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Discover services using avahi in AWS

I have a separate VPC and subnet with ec2 instances running in them. I have installed avahi on one of the instances for discovering all the services in that subnet. But avahi is not able to discover this services which are running on other…
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MDNS support in Flutter

We need to connect Rasberry PI device locally using domain name. For that we have already enables mDNS support in Rasberry PI device. When we looking for mDNS from flutter mDNS flutter. But that is not compatible with latest Dart versions and it has…
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Android Network Service Discovery get hostname (mDNS/Zeroconf)

I am trying to get the hostname from a service that is advertising itself on my local network using mDNS/Zeroconf. I am using Android's Network Service Discovery API, but it seems as if Android doesn't use the advertised hostname but tries to do a…
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Is there any easy way to implement multicast DNS using javascript and browser?

Is there any easy way to implement multicast DNS using javascript and browser? I'm seeing zeroconf /polo which depends on node.js, but I'm looking for the solution for multicast DNS/ Service discovery like zeroconf/polo which will work on…
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How does HomeKit find nearby devices?

First of all I am sorry if this is not the most appropriate forum to post this question. I looked at AskDifferent which seems not technical enough for this and I looked at Super User which seems too technical for it. Hence why I am asking it here as…
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Detect if browser supports local mDNS querying

It appears that some browsers support querying for local mDNS addresses (of the type http://hostname.local/), while others don't. It looks like iOS supports this in it's networking stack itself, so all browsers on iOS support .local addresses. On…
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What is the current state of mDNS on Windows?

It used to be that Windows would only resolve multicast DNS addresses (say, example.local) if iTunes was installed. Is that still true or has that changed in recent Windows versions? (I gave up on Windows years ago and so I cannot check easily…
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