MDNS backchannel on OSX 10.4

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Sep 17 08:51:13 PDT 2008


keens312 wrote:
>> keens312 wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> I check all the CUPS version, only latest 1.4 version contains mdns backend.
>>>
>>> But OSX 10.3 and 10.4 has released for years, where does OSX 10.3.9 and 10.4 get the mdns backend from?
>> Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier use a different mdns implementation that was
>> not open sourced.  That said, all the mdns backend does when printing
>> is execute the backend that corresponds to the protocol being used -
>> ipp, lpd, riousbprint, or socket.  Any back-channel support will come
>> from those backends and not mdns itself.
>>
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>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>>
> what exact backend does Bonjour use? from CUPS log, i only knew mdns backend was launched.

Like I said, that depends on the advertised protocol:

     Protocol           Backend
     -----------------  -------
     pdl-datastream     socket
     printer            lpd
     ipp                ipp
     riousbprint        riousbprint

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




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