Bug#255803: howl & zcip

[Nicholas Humfrey <njh@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

zcip does the address assignment part of Rendezvous/Zeroconf. For use 
in Ad-hoc networks where there is no DHCP or other server to assign 
an IP address.


howl provides the next stage up in Zeroconf - multicast DNS support. 
This is used to locate servers and services on the local subnet, 
again in an ad-hoc way, without a managed network.



howl is aiming to become fully GPL:

http://lists.porchdogsoft.com/pipermail/howl-users/2004-June/000221.html

But I think currently contains portions on Apple APSL code.



There are already Debian packages for howl available here:

http://interreality.org/software/debian/howl.html

But it would be great to have howl available as part of main Debian.



nick.