Re: Bug#255803: ITP: howl -- Zeroconf service discovery and IP autoconfiguration tools

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Subject: Re: Bug#255803: ITP: howl -- Zeroconf service discovery and IP autoconfiguration tools
From: Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:00:23 +1000
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<quote who="Andrew Pollock">

> > Howl is a implementation of Zeroconf networking, including service
> > discovery via multicast or unicast DNS (called "Rendezvous" by Apple)
> > and local link IP autoconfiguration.
> 
> How does this differ from zcip in functionality?

zcip is just the IP side of the Zeroconf stack. Howl also provides the
service discovery side. The IP autoconfiguration daemon package in Howl
would have to conflict with zcip. :-)

- Jeff

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