[Development] Requesting New Repository - QtZeroConf

[Knoll Lars]

On 10/09/15 06:14, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday 09 September 2015 22:59:11 Jonathan Bagg wrote:
>> http://lists.apple.com/archives/rendezvous-dev/2004/Apr/msg00031.html
>> Windows LLMNR doesn't appear to be compatible with mDNS / zeroconf. Are
>> you suggesting on Windows there would be an option to use LLMNR or mDNS?
>
>I know it isn't compatible, but it is doing the same function. I'm not
>asking 
>to replace mDNS support on Windows (interoperability), but I am asking if
>it 
>makes sense to also add support for LLMNR as it's available anyway.

I think that could make sense. But ideally, we would then support it cross
platform.

I’d be happy about a Qt add-on for zeroconf. Discovering services on the
local network is something I think is missing in Qt at this point in time.

Cheers,
Lars


>
>For that matter, all of the IoT protocols support discovery in some
>level. For 
>us in OIC, it's done by a multicast CoAP packet (which is really easy to
>do 
>with QUdpSocket). Do you think there's room for this kind of extended
>discovery?