June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
17h 17m
English
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This protocol was published as RFC 6762, it utilizes IP multicast UDP (User Datagram
Protocol). Apple’s Bonjour and open source Avahi are known for implementing mDNS. The
Android operating system is also known for implementing mDNS. Plus, Microsoft’s latest oper-
ating system, Windows 10 has also implemented mDNS. However, Windows 10 has very lim-
ited use of mDNS for discovering network connected printers.
When an mDNS client requires to solve a hostname, it emits an IP multicast query that
questions the host on having the exact name to identify itself. Then the target machine multi-
casts a note that contains its IP address. All devices existing ...