Re: [44net] advertised services

DNS - Can a service or host advertise itself? That's the missing piece even with the OLSRD/HampMESH magic. I believe we'll get that using Bonjour/Zeroconf (or what ever it's called this week...) Bill On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:20 AM, K7VE - John &lt;k7ve(a)k7ve.org&gt; wrote: > (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) > _______________________________________________ > Why not use DNS? > > I have a testing domain setup at arlink.net > > See how it works for some D-STAR linking services > > host -t SRV _dextra._udp.arlink.net > host -t SRV _dplus._udp.arlink.net > host -t SRV _dcs._udp.arlink.net > > It could easily support BBS and other services. > > ------------------------------ > John D. Hays > K7VE > PO Box 1223, Edmonds, WA 98020-1223 > <http://k7ve.org/blog> <http://twitter.com/#!/john_hays> > <http://www.facebook.com/john.d.hays> > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM, &lt;kb9mwr(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> (Please trim inclusions from previous messages) >> _______________________________________________ >> I stumbled into a useful function that the Hamnet/HSMM folks have: >> >> >> http://hsmm-mesh.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-1-general/topic-5… >> >> >> Maybe there is a way to do (code) something similar for the more >> traditional nodes on the amprnet. >> >> >> Advertising what is out there on a network seems to be a major issue >> at least in my eyes. >> _________________________________________ >> 44Net mailing list >> 44Net(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu >> http://hamradio.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/44net >> http://www.ampr.org/donate.html >> >