Comment 53 for bug 465916

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Jouke (digigram) wrote : Re: [Bug 465916] Re: CUPS DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/Zeroconf/Avahi) not broadcasting

Thanks, I finally get it.

2010/11/18 Zerocool3001 <email address hidden>

> Jouke: According to the bug report filed with Avahi
> (http://www.avahi.org/ticket/303), the dns-ds.h currently in the Avahi
> package does not use the API's for CUPS 1.4 (the details are on the
> avahi bug report). The dns-sd.h included in Mac OS X seems to use these
> correct API's and functions with CUPS 1.4.
>
> It seems that the simple solution (as the bug maintainer suggests) would
> be to include the solution from Apple's dns-sd.h. However, looking at
> the comments on that bug shows that people don't agree with this
> solution (for what appears to be a dislike of Apple). Until dns-sd.h
> uses the API's in CUPS 1.4 (and to be used in future versions of CUPS),
> Apple's Bonjour would seem to be the only dnssd implementation that will
> work with CUPS.
>
> --
> CUPS DNS-SD (Bonjour/mDNS/Zeroconf/Avahi) not broadcasting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465916
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Jouke Postma