On Jun 30, 2004, at 1:17 PM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
No. We knew Rendezvous was open-source and potentially cross-platform
when we implemented Autodiscovery. But AutoDiscovery has a number of
other advantages. I see no advantages to Rendezvous except the
ability to discover Rendezvous-enabled devices -- but I've never
actually run into one of those myself.
This is an unfortunate opinion. Rendezvous does *not* find devices. It
finds services. In fact, most OS X installations are already
advertising services via Rendezvous, like http and ssh. It is
tremendously easy to create a server in OS X that advertises using
Rendezvous. In fact, I am running a simple http server built in Rb
which is doing just that. Unfortunately, it's not quite as easy for me
to find the server in an Rb client. The same for all the other services
I might want to find (say, ssh). To have that same server use the Rb
autodiscovery mechanism would have been (significantly) more work, and
would have only allowed Rb clients to find it. Going it alone on a
network is rarely a good approach, making you the small fish in the big
ocean. Even the supposedly big fish have learned that lesson the hard
way.
--Brady
The La Jolla Underground
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