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Enhancement: Chromecast should resolve zeroconf hostnames #156

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Ideally, Chromecast should resolve zeroconf hostnames so that we can enable web 
apps being hosted on local area networks. This will make development of web 
apps more convenient while also providing the ability for LAN media servers 
(Plex, Seagate, etc) to serve up web apps.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up web server on a Mac computer
2. Set "Computer Name" in Settings (ex. "My Computer")
3. Configure an app id for http://My-Computer.local/
4. Launch app id onto Chromecast

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should see my web app being hosted on My Computer appear on the Chromecast 
device. Currently the Chromecast is unable to find http://My-Computer.local/.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ten90jwhite@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2014 at 4:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Chromecast, by design, will not look at the local settings for host resolution; 
it always uses Google's DNS server and that is mainly for reliability and more 
importantly, security.

Original comment by anad...@google.com on 21 Feb 2014 at 4:46