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Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks using industry standard IP protocols.

Bonjour, also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks using industry standard IP protocols.

Official page: http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/

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How to use Bonjour?

First, what exactly Bonjour does (pleas read my guesses written bellow)? Here I found out that Bonjour enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. But I thought that it not only "discovers devices on IP network"…
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How can I make a linux samba server to announce itself on the local LAN via Bonjour to Mac clients?

I have a Debian Linux based file-server using Samba and nowadays being accessed successfully by Mac OS X clients.. I'd like this resource to be available in a more user friendly way, by means of Bonjour. Is it possible, to configure the Linux…
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How DNS service discovery, multicast DNS and Bonjour are related?

I am a bit lost in the terminology. I wanted to start to use Bonjour. As the first step, I tried to find an easy way to use it. And I thought that I, probably, can call Bonjour from the command line to register and discover services. When I asked…
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How can Bonjour be setup to function over a VPN connection using Mac OS X — Mountain Lion Server?

I purchased Mountain Lion Server for our office thinking that Bonjour would automatically enable any computers connected via VPN to see all computers and applications (such as Bento) running on the office network. The hope was that those of us…
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Is there a way to set up Avahi to implement "anycast name resolution" on a LAN?

First, some background: We've got a lab containing a handful of dedicated Linux servers that run on an isolated LAN. All the servers run the same OS (Debian Linux) and the same proprietary server software, and the server processes communicate with…
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Multicast routing across two subnets with FreeBSD 9 (Bonjour between subnets)?

I have a FreeBSD 9 router (a Soekris net6501) connected to the internet via a dsl modem (bridged), doing NAT for two internal subnets, 10.0.1.0/24 (LAN) and 10.0.2.0/24 (wifi net). There are routes between the subnets and things like ssh host-A.wifi…
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Bonjour/mDNS Broadcast across subnets

I have just setup a new OSX Server in our office and verified that everything is working fine over our wired network (192.168.126.0/24). The problem that I am having is that our clients (Mac Laptops) are mainly connected via Wireless, which are…
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How to make Bonjour (mDNS) work over OpenVPN?

I have a server running Debian 8. Recently I installed OpenVPN on it using this tutorial. Everything is working nicely. I tested on my macbook using the Tunnelblick client. Used Google to check my IP, connected to the VPN checked again and it…
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Repeating mDNS/Bonjour requests from eth0 through a tunnel (tun0)

To start off, I am quite new at both networking and Unix/Ubuntu/Linux distros. Just a warning, for any setup/code may look a bit ugly. Basically, my end goal is to successfully AirPlay Mirror to a remote Ubuntu server from my iPhone on a different…
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AirPlay over unicast DNS-SD. Anyone got it working?

We set up AirPrint using unicast DNS-SD on our campus about a year ago and it turned out to be a big success, so we're looking at trying to get AirPlay working so our faculty and students can wirelessly show content on our classroom…
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Why doesn't Bonjour for Windows see my IPv6-only Linux hosts?

On my LAN I have three essentially identical Debian Linux boxes running Avahi. One of them has both an IPv4 address and and IPv6 address, and the other two have only IPv6 addresses. They all show up in Bonjour Browser on my Mac, like…
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How do I tell OS X's implementation of Bonjour/ZeroConf which network to use for mdns?

I have four networks on my machine: 192.168.20.0/24 wired (connected only at work) 192.168.20.0/24 wireless (connected only at home) 192.168.132.0/24 VMWare's NAT 192.168.238.0/24 VMWare's host-only My OS X (10.5) seems to prefer to use VMWare's…
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Protocol (or service publish/discovery) to detect devices in network

we connect some embedded devices in a network. What i am looking for now, is a way to find the devices IP and identify them. We work with Windows PC´s and i am about to write a C# tool that should do this. I thought about send a udp broadcast and…
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Wide Area Bonjour using DNS SRV Records

Running Apple's Lion Server (10.7.3). I am trying to get VPN clients (clients on another subnet) to see the server's Apple File share. I know that Bonjour doesn't route over a VPN or subnet, so I am adding static DNS entries. AFP shares work, as I…
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What is Bonjour Linux IPTables Firewall Ports?

I'm trying to configure my iptables in order to allow Pidgin to use Bonjour protocol, now according to: Bonjour for Windows doesn't work due to firewall settings, I have to allow Multicast DNS / (5353/udp). [alexus@wcmisdlin02 ~]$ cat…
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