Bug#284497: RFP: libnss-mdns -- GNU Libc NSS module providing mDNS host name resolution

[Lennart Poettering <mzqrooht@0pointer.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : libnss-mdns
  Version         : 0.1
  Upstream Author : Lennart Poettering
* URL             : http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/nss-mdns/
* License         : LGPL
  Description     : GNU Libc NSS module providing mDNS host name resolution

>From the homepage:

<snip>
nss-mdns is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality
of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution via
Multicast DNS (aka Zeroconf, aka Apple Rendezvous), effectively allowing
name resolution by common Unix/Linux programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain
.local.

nss-mdns provides client functionality only, which means that you have
to run a mDNS responder daemon seperately from nss-mdns if you want to
register the local host name via mDNS (e.g. HOWL).

nss-mdns is very lightweight (18 KByte stripped binary .so compiled with
-DNDEBUG=1), has no dependencies besides the glibc and requires only
minimal configuration.
</snip>

Lennart


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)