1 This module allows and Apache 2.0 web server to register its services on a
2 Zero Configuration network.
4 Zeroconf <http://www.zeroconf.org/> is a working group of the IETF. The
5 charter of this working group is to have computers network using TCP/IP
6 without prior configuration: no address servers or name servers are needed.
7 Zeroconf consists of the following protocols:
9 * Link-local IP addressing, where hosts pick a random address in the
11 * Multicast DNS or mDNS, where every host runs its own DNS responder that
12 listens on port 5353 and communicates over multicast UDP/IP address
13 224.0.0.251 (IPv6 equivalent ff02::fb). All hosts are collectively
14 authorative for the .local. domain.
15 * DNS Service Discovery or DNS-SD allows hosts and their user to register and
16 browse services by a human-readable name.
18 mod_zeroconf relies on an external mDNS Responder and currently supports