From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T01:36:19+09:00
Subject: Re: rinda with other protocols

Hi,

> I'm in the process of adding Rendezvous support (pure ruby) to ruby's
> resolv.rb using it's DNS support. I've got address lookups on my OS X
> network working, but I need to get some bug fixes into the ruby core 
> lib
> before I can release.
>
> After that, I want to add support for DNS-SD, which is the rendezvous
> service discovery protocol, but is basically just a convention for
> DNS record naming that works on mDNS or the more typical unicast
> DNS.
>
> I think this could be used in Rinda as a less ruby-specific way of
> advertising services, and if the service advertised is a soap or
> beep server port, that should work fine with DNS-SD.
>
> Anyhow, just to let folks know that something is coming that might
> help with this a bit, at least on a local area network.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>

You're my hero, three hurrahs for a bright and well distributed Ruby 
future!

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Ilmari Heikkinen