DNS-SD API

[Gozala]

mdns used for local peer discovery and is critical for enabling dweb protocols on the local network. There is an mdns artifacts from Project Flyweb that likely could be utilized to expose WebExtensions API.

[Gozala]

Feedback from @mafintosh

assuming the udp client above can support multicast and REUSEADDR we don't really need a dedicated multicast api

[Gozala]

Chrome OS apps seem to have mdns API

[autonome]

Gecko implementation: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/dns/mdns/libmdns/nsDNSServiceDiscovery.js

[Gozala]

@autonome It looks like this is what IPFS is currently using for mdns:
https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p-mdns

And my guess is this is what Dat uses
https://github.com/mafintosh/multicast-dns

Would be worth taking a look what the API is to try and match that

[mafintosh]

Noting that the libp2p-mdns module just uses the multicast-dns module under the hood as well

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[justindarc]

Hello. I helped to develop the mDNS implementation for FlyWeb. I'd like to know more about this project. Is there a channel on IRC/Slack?

[autonome]

Hey @justindarc! #dweb on Mozilla Slack and IRC.

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[Gozala]

@autonome has landed simple discovery API and I made an example add-on https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb/tree/master/demo/mdns. There is also gif in readme now showing it in action.

[rektide]

It's discovery only, and once upon a day had implementations (Opera!), but perhaps there's some value to mentioning that there was as Discovery API specification that web pages could use to find mdns services.

[RangerMauve]

MDNS is great for discovery, but won't this require the ability to listen on ports from a WebExtension to be useful?