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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Rendezvous in php
From: john@supernerd.com (John LeSueur)

Sara Golemon wrote:

>>I apologize if this is the wrong place for this. I have been working on
>>building a rendezvous php module, and have a proof of concept. I've been
>>developing it on windows, but I think it should compile fine for the
>>real platforms. Feel free to point and laugh, it isn't amazing code.
>>sample usage:
>>
>>    
>>
>Looks pretty clean..
>
>I've never worked with Rondevouz, I understand it's something like a
>link-local multicast version of portmap?
>
>  
>
It uses multicast dns queries and replies to advertise services.  it 
does only work link-local, although
they intend to add a unicat dns query that will be able to browse 
services across routing.

>I see that it requires linking against an external library, how is that
>library licensed?  Are there unix versions of that library available as
>well? (the zip only contains a windows .lib file)
>
>  
>
It's based off Apple's rendezvous implementation.
http://developer.apple.com/macosx/Rendezvous/
The license is APSL(Not entirely open, but free).  I'm not sure what the 
ramifications of the licensing will be. 
I kind of just threw this together, hoping it would work.

>More imporatantly, do you have a link to the site you got that library from?
>(Save the rest of us some googling)
>
>It sounds like something that would fit nicely into PECL.  Be sure to bring
>it up within that forum.
>
>  
>
I think I'm going to move this discussion to Pecl

>Interfaces are numbered from 1 then?  Would it make sense to use a "Network
>Device Friendly Name" under windows? (performing the lookup silently using
>Win32API calls)  That might not be a wonderful idea as there's not much in
>the way of POSIX standardization when it comes to mapping unix interface
>names to interface numbers...
>
>-Sara
>
>  
>
To be honest, I'm not sure about the interfaces thing. Right now, that's 
just getting passed directly to the underlying
library.

John LeSueur