[lwip-devel] [patch #8755] Multicast DNS responder support

[Erik Ekman]

Follow-up Comment #8, patch #8755 (project lwip):

>To make hostname.local. resolvable with the DNS client we need to catch names
which 
>end in .local. and query them on the v4/v6 multicast groups and then pass the
answer
>back to the client in some way. This is related to building an mDNS client
that can
>find services/hosts to connect to. 

Thinking about this again there is a simpler way to look up data for the
.local domain as task #10238 mentions.
Just build the query as usual and send it to 224.0.0.251:5353, and all replies
will come back as normal unicast packets
formatted as normal replies.


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