[Proposal] Remove dns_sd API

Ralph Böhme slow at samba.org
Mon Nov 6 09:47:08 UTC 2017


On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 09:56:13PM +0100, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Ralph Böhme <slow at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 10:07:23PM -0700, Omri Mor wrote:
> > > Otherwise, someone needs to take up the job of fixing and maintaining the
> > > code—which *must* include actually testing patches (5b26cfe and b28a2e5).
> > > Keeping the status quo untenable.
> >
> 
> ack and happy to review patches that remove it.
> >
> 
> Thanks for the offer, Ralph, if you could give me/us a bit of direction in
> the way what tests and how they should be written - we can invest some time
> into writing them.
> 
> As a matter of fact dns_sd is working and used in the FreeBSD ports and in
> the FreeNAS. Actually, FreeNAS uses mDNSResponder to provide service
> auto-discovery
> and used dns_sd code on a regular basics. So I wouldn't call this part of
> the code "non-working".

ah, so we're getting some traction here. :)

So you say it's working? Omri, can you check?

If it's working it would be good to upstream the patches that the FreeBSD port
carries. 

-slow

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