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diff --git a/doc/README.html.in b/doc/README.html.in index 72e66e2..28e5402 100644 --- a/doc/README.html.in +++ b/doc/README.html.in @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</p> <h2><a name="news">News</a></h2> +<div class="news-date">Sat Nov 19 2005: </div> <p class="news-text"><a +href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-mdns-0.7.tar.gz">Version 0.7</a> +released. Changes include: Portability patch for ARM from Philipp +Zabel; make sure not to print any messages to STDERR; deal with OOM +situations properly; other cleanups</p> + <div class="news-date">Sun Aug 21 2005: </div> <p class="news-text"><a href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-mdns-0.6.tar.gz">Version 0.6</a> released. Changes include: honour search list in @@ -81,20 +87,20 @@ href="@PACKAGE_URL@nss-mdns-0.1.tar.gz">Version 0.1</a> released</p> Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (<tt>glibc</tt>) providing host name resolution via <a href="http://www.multicastdns.org/">Multicast DNS</a> (aka -<i>Zeroconf</i>, aka <i>Apple Rendezvous</i>), effectively allowing +<i>Zeroconf</i>, aka <i>Apple Rendezvous</i>, aka <i>Apple Bonjour</i>), effectively allowing name resolution by common Unix/Linux programs in the ad-hoc mDNS domain <tt>.local</tt>.</p> <p><tt>nss-mdns</tt> provides client functionality only, which means that you have to run a mDNS responder daemon seperately from <tt>nss-mdns</tt> if you want to register the local host name via -mDNS (e.g. <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi">Avahi</a>).</p> +mDNS. I recommend <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi">Avahi</a>.</p> <p><tt>nss-mdns</tt> is very lightweight (23 KByte stripped binary -<tt>.so</tt> compiled with <tt>-DNDEBUG=1</tt> on i386, <tt>gcc</tt> -3.3), has no dependencies besides the <tt>glibc</tt> and requires only +<tt>.so</tt> compiled with <tt>-DNDEBUG=1 -Os</tt> on i386, <tt>gcc</tt> +4.0), has no dependencies besides the <tt>glibc</tt> and requires only minimal configuration.</p> -<p>Optionally, <tt>nss-mdns</tt> can try to contact a running <a +<p>Optionally <tt>nss-mdns</tt> can try to contact a running <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi">avahi-daemon</a> to make use of its superior record cacheing.</p> @@ -103,7 +109,8 @@ make use of its superior record cacheing.</p> <p>It works!</p> <p>While <tt>nss-mdns</tt> supports resolving IPv6 addresses it does -so via IPv4 multicasts only.</p> +so via IPv4 multicasts only. (Unless, of course, it finds a running +Avahi daemon which supports IPv6 properly.)</p> <h2><a name="documentation">Documentation</a></h2> @@ -153,12 +160,6 @@ use <tt>glibc</tt>'s <tt>getent</tt> tool: <p>Replace <i>foo</i> whith a host name that has been registered with an mDNS responder.</p> -<p>To reduce the traffic <tt>nss-mdns</tt> is responsible for consider -installing <tt>glibc</tt>'s name service cache daemon -<tt>nscd</tt>. However, when doing troubleshooting for -<tt>nss-mdns</tt>, don't forget to disable <tt>nscd</tt> for getting -sensible results.</p> - <p>If you run a firewall, don't forget to allow UDP traffic to the the mDNS multicast address <tt>224.0.0.251</tt> on port 5353.</p> @@ -187,14 +188,6 @@ mDNS.</p> <p>If the configuration file is existent but empty, mDNS name lookups are disabled completely.</p> -<p><tt>nss-mdns</tt> does not honour the domain search list of -<tt>/etc/resolv.conf</tt>, because I don't consider that this would be -a good idea, since every name lookup for non-existing domains would -result in a series of long timeouts of <tt>nss-mdns</tt>. If somebody -still considers this a good idea, he is free to send me a sensible -patch, which I might apply, but only if the domain search list may be -disabled.</p> - <h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2> <p>Currently, <tt>nss-mdns</tt> is tested on Linux only. A fairly @@ -222,6 +215,8 @@ compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of <p>Sean Meiners for search list support.</p> +<p>Philipp Zabel for ARM support.</p> + <h2><a name="download">Download</a></h2> <p>The newest release is always available from <a href="@PACKAGE_URL@">@PACKAGE_URL@</a></p> @@ -232,12 +227,12 @@ compilation and <tt>make install</tt> (as root) for installation of <pre>svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/nss-mdns/trunk nss-mdns</pre> -<p>You may find an up to date Debian package of <tt>nss-mdns</tt> on the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/libnss-mdns">Debian package repository</a>.</p> +<p>You may find an up to date Debian package of <tt>nss-mdns</tt> on the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/libnss-mdns">Debian package repository</a>. Many other distributions ship it, too.</p> <p>If you want to be notified whenever I release a new version of this software use the subscription feature of <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/nss-mdns/">Freshmeat</a>.</p> <hr/> -<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, Aug 2005</address> +<address class="grey">Lennart Poettering <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>, Nov 2005</address> <div class="grey"><i>$Id$</i></div> </body> |