On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:52:53AM +0200, Petr Spacek wrote: > On 25.9.2013 08:20, Christian Horn wrote: > > > >Hm.. another nice idea would be to announce services via > >zeroconf/bonjour. I guess effectively its the same as having clients > >search in DNS "who offers service XYZ" which we already do for ker- > >beros, ldap etc. > > Interesting idea. Do you know any real use cases? I have not seen > Bonjour in real use except for network printers.
It can be used for all protocols, so "generic service dis- covery". So one could setup a client in a network and see "oh, someone offers XMPP service". "Here are printers announcing services." "This DLNA server offers video streamin." I think the big window managers like gnome3 also started to use those and offer > Please create RFE ticket (request for enhancement) to prevent it > from falling through the cracks: > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/newticket Will do, bringing it up there makes definitely sense. But really curious on how widely (or if at all) there is interest in this. I think this style of service discovery is currently more used in desktop environments than in server environments. Christian _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
