dat's mdns entries are special?

mafintosh / dns-discovery

Discovery peers in a distributed system using regular dns and multicast dns.

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dat's mdns entries are special? #20

Open bhyde opened 5 years ago

bhyde commented 5 years ago

I was expecting to be able to observe the mdns entires that (I gather) are stood up when a dat node is sharing. So I used "Discovery" on MacOS an then "Service Browser" on my Android phone and they didn't show anything. (Both apps are avail in MacOS/Android App stores).

So being puzzled I enquire in irc/glitter and after a while I was told that the Dat mDNS implementation is "similar but incompatible with spec".

if true, that's a bug.

bhyde commented 5 years ago

hm, mdsn labels are limited to 63 octets, but yeah a that's not 64 of the ed25519 public-keys used by dat:// urls and i suspect in the host names of this mdns discovery scheme.