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2                      ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
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4                         (c)2001-2005 Alexander Barton
5                     alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
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7                ngIRCd is free software and published under the
8                    terms of the GNU General Public License.
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10 			      -- Zeroconf.txt --
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13 ngIRCd supports one aspect of Zeroconf Networking[1]: Multicast DNS (mDNS[2])
14 with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD[3]).
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16 To use this features you can use one of two APIs:
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18   a) Apple "Bonjour" API as used by Mac OS X,
19   b) the Howl[4] Zeroconf library.
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21 When calling the configure script using the "--with-zeroconf" switch the
22 avalable API will be autodetected and the required additional libraries will
23 be linked to the ngircd binary as required.
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25 ngIRCd then registers a DNS-SD service for each port it is listening on using
26 the service type "_ircu._tcp.".
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29 Links:
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31  [1] http://www.zeroconf.org/
32  [2] http://www.multicastdns.org/
33  [3] http://www.dns-sd.org/
34  [4] http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/
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38 $Id: Zeroconf.txt,v 1.1 2005/07/08 16:19:03 alex Exp $