Someone around who knows mdnsd?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi all,

I found that FreeNAS 10 uses mdnsd instead of avahi-daemon. I tried to set up mdnsd to announce a FreeBSD machine (in bhyve, in FreeNAS) on the local LAN with (at least) services _ssh._tcp and _minecraft._tcp.

Is there really no way to statically configure services for mdnsd to announce? After an hour of search engine abuse I actually used a FreeBSD development system for cd /usr/ports/net/mDNSResponder; make extract patch configure and started to study the source code.

And it looks like it's only listening for applications to register their own services via the provide API - no configuration.

Is that really the case?

Thanks,
Patrick

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

To the friendly moderator who moved this thread:

This does not in any way apply to FreeNAS! I just figured there might be knowledgable people around here.

I'm trying to use mdnsd on a plain vanilla FreeBSD and documentation on mdnsd is really sparse ... so since FreeNAS successfully uses mdnsd, I gave it a try in off-topic.

Kind regards,
Patrick

 

[sef]

Yes, that is the case.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Thanks! net/avahi-app does what I need.

Patrick