Re-Raising the mDNS patch after CIFS workshop discussion

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 21:12 -0700, James Peach wrote:
> On 26/09/2007, at 6:24 PM, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> > For all people interested in Bonjour/mDNS:
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> > After today's Bonjour/mDNS BoF, I promised to dig up the
> > existing patch in Bugzilla.  The bug number is 4510
> > (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4510)
> >
> > The main thing right now it needs is review (based on
> > other existing mDNS behavior such as what is in OS X).
> 
> FWIW, the smb service already has a TXT record defined, according to  
> <http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html>:
> 
> smb             Server Message Block over TCP/IP
>                  Defined TXT keys: u=<username> p=<password> path=<path>
> 
> It doesn't look like a particularly useful set of keys and I've never  
> heard of anyone actually using it.

Yikes...  Can we redefine this (does anything at all use this?), or will
standards-based clients forever expect to parse these useless strings?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com

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