[sane-devel] Re: SANEd and DNS-SD

Jochen Eisinger jochen at penguin-breeder.org
Sat Feb 10 10:04:26 CET 2007


Hi,

I've forwarded your mail to the sane mailing list. I'm not sure who
should be the contact person, so it's probably the best to discuss this
on the list.

regards
-- jochen

Alex Austin wrote:
> Jochen,
> 
> I am working on building an integrated product which runs SANEd. When
> looking into writing frontend drivers, I realized that automatic
> discovery would be advantageous, and the best protocol for this, right
> now, seems to be DNS-SD (used in Apple's Bonjour suite). I will soon be
> writing a windows WIA microdriver for the SANE net backend, and I think
> auto discovery is necessary for it to work properly. (UPnP doesn't seem
> to quite fit...)
> 
> DNS-SD relies on DNS SRV records sent via multicast DNS service. To use
> this technology effectively, a DNS SRV Service Type needs to be
> registered, and I don't think I'm the right person to specify as
> "in-charge" of the protocol.
> 
> See http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html
> 
> The info I've collected so far:
>   Short name of protocol: sane-port
>   Long description: SANE Control Port
>   Name and Email of Responsible Party: Jochen Eisinger
> <jochen at penguin-breeder.org <mailto:jochen at penguin-breeder.org>> <- ???
> Is this okay?
>   URL of Protocol Description: http://www.sane-project.org/html/doc015.html
>   Primary transport protocol: _tcp
>   TXT Record service keys: None
> 
> Would you care to register it, or can you point me to a more appropriate
> person?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -- 
> - Alex Austin
> Circuitsoft Computer Services
> (651) 238-9273
> www.circuitsoftcs.com <http://www.circuitsoftcs.com>
> 
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