Re: What is mDNSResponder for?
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 04:54, David Jarvie wrote:
> Evey time I boot up (Sarge), I get a list of messages dropped by my
> firewall. They are all for IP address 224.0.0.251, on UDP port 5353. It
> looks like these transmissions are being generated by mDNSResponder. I
> can't find anything more than a very cryptic description of what this
> program is for, but it looks as if it might be designed to run on server
> machines rather than desktops. Can anybody explain its purpose, so that I
> can decide if I actually need it?
>
> Cheers,
> David.
This service comes from the package of the same name:
$ apt-cache show mdnsresponder
Package: mdnsresponder
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 220
Maintainer: Jeff Waugh <jdub@perkypants.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: howl
Version: 0.9.8-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/h/howl/mdnsresponder_0.9.8-2_i386.deb
Size: 72230
MD5sum: 590b5b900ef708aa6eca5ccd306200d8
Description: Howl Rendezvous/mDNS service responder daemon
This daemon services multicast DNS service discovery ("Rendezvous")
requests.
If you want to know more about Rendezvous, check out
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/
Hope that helps,
Justin Guerin
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