ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server (c)2001-2006 Alexander Barton alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/ ngIRCd is free software and published under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -- Zeroconf.txt -- ngIRCd supports one aspect of Zeroconf Networking[1]: Multicast DNS (mDNS[2]) with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD[3]). To use this features you can use one of two APIs: a) Apple "Bonjour" API as used by Mac OS X, b) the Howl[4] Zeroconf library or the Howl compatibility layer of the newer Avahi[5] library. When calling the configure script using the "--with-zeroconf" switch the avalable API will be autodetected and the required additional libraries will be linked to the ngircd binary as required. ngIRCd then registers a DNS-SD service for each port it is listening on using the service type "_ircu._tcp.". Links: [1] http://www.zeroconf.org/ [2] http://www.multicastdns.org/ [3] http://www.dns-sd.org/ [4] http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/ [5] http://avahi.org/ -- $Id: Zeroconf.txt,v 1.2 2006/08/03 14:37:29 alex Exp $