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On Thursday 30 June 2005 02:24, Tony Hoyle wrote: > David Somers wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 17:30, Tony Hoyle wrote: > >>* info -b: Local discovery of cvsnt servers using zeroconf. > > > > In the docs, it says: > > > > Where supported) list available cvsnt servers on the local network. This > > currently requires mdns support on the client > > > > Um... shouldn't that be ... on the server? > > Well, both actually. > > There's client support (mdnsclient, which is a hack of nss-mdns) built > in to the code but it may not function on all platforms. FYI, it works just fine on both my Linux and Windows clients. > > Server > suppport requires a responder which again depends on the platform. > Win32 has howl, OSX has its own internal one, Linux has whatever's > installed (usually howl). Sure. Perhaps I should have said: For the cvsnt server to work with ZeroConf, a responder must be running on the host. > > On my system I only have ZeroConf installed on my server, and when doing > > cvs info -b on my client it works. > > That means thare's client support too :) Hardly surprising, since you built the client stuff into cvsnt (now that I had a quick look through the source.) BTW, I'm absolutly amazed that ZeroConf works... after months of sitting idle, my mDNSResponder is now doing something useful ;-) Cheers -- David Somers VoIP: FWD 622885 PGP Key Fingerprint