[maemo-users] Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support

From: Kalle Valo Kalle.Valo at nokia.com
Date: Fri Oct 26 10:14:47 EEST 2007
"ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes:

>> Just of curiosity, who is issuing the DNS query? The Nintendo Wii
>> device? N800 shouldn't see DNS requests made by other devices. DNS is
>> unicast and N800 shouldn't see unicast packets between AP and other
>> WLAN clients.
>
> Doesn't multicast DNS use the same port and protocol as regular DNS?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf#Apple.27s_protocol:_Multicast_DNS.2FDNS-SD

Good point. If it's MDNS then it's normal. But if it's normal unicast
DNS requests origination from some other device, something is broken.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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