Service advertisement

[techniq]

Is it possible to create a mdns advertisement similarly to how node_mdns does, or is this simply a higher abstraction for something like mdns.on('query', function(query) { ... }) that replies to specific questions of a type (SRV?)

[mafintosh]

yes you'd respond to the query event with a response message. see https://github.com/mafintosh/airpaste/blob/master/index.js#L29-L62 for an example. multicast-dns is a low-level impl of the mdns protocol. we should consider making a higher level module that wraps this to make it easier to use.

[techniq]

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Is the service type (ex. _http._tcp) as mentioned on their user guide need to be set as the name or is that part of the data.

[mafintosh]

it's usually part of the name unless your record is a PTR record that points to another name

[techniq]

Thanks

[mafintosh]

Btw a module that would format the service types name, formatMdns.http.tcp('test') would probably be a good idea to write :)

[techniq]

Agreed ;)

[techniq]

https://github.com/agnat/node_mdns/blob/master/lib/service_type.js

[mafintosh]

I made this little thing now, https://github.com/mafintosh/multicast-dns-service-types

[techniq]

Awesome. Thanks

[CMCDragonkai]

It would be great if you could update the README.md with the ability to use the multicast-dns-service-types.