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OSX: Excessive NXDOMAIN response for dns-sd queries

I'm primarily in a OSX environment and I'm seeing a large number of NXDOMAIN responses from our internal DNS servers. The queries that trigger these responses are what I believe to be mDNS/Bonjour ...
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Protocol (or service publish/discovery) to detect devices in network

we connect some embedded devices in a network. What i am looking for now, is a way to find the devices IP and identify them. We work with Windows PC´s and i am about to write a C# tool that should do ...
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zeroconf (bonjour) assign ip adresses (.NET)

i am on windows and i want to write a tool in .NET that gives IP´s (with zeroconf) to embedded devices in a network. I am familiar with programming but new to zeroconf, networking. So i wondered, ...
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Wide Area Bonjour using DNS SRV Records

Running Apple's Lion Server (10.7.3). I am trying to get VPN clients (clients on another subnet) to see the server's Apple File share. I know that Bonjour doesn't route over a VPN or subnet, so I am ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 not properly forwarding dns-sd records. Why?

I've recently been trying to set up unicast DNS-SD to make printing easier for our Mac users, but I've hit an odd snag. We use two Windows Server 2008 R2 machines as the DNS servers between end-users ...
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Reason for perpetual dynamic DNS updates?

I'm using dynamic DNS (the "adult" version from RFC 2136, not à la DynDNS), and for a while now I've been seeing my laptops with MacOS 10.6.x churning out updates about every 10 seconds. And seemingly ...
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Adding more than one “.local” address using OSX Bonjour,

Is it possible to have more than one ".local" address per machine using Bonjour on OSX? I would like to add x.local and archive.x.local so that I can run multiple apache vhosts. System Preferences > ...
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How can I unregister a service with dns-sd?

I am trying to use "dns-sd" command line tool on my Windows 7 machine. I can already do something. For example I can register a service using "dns-sd -R ...". I also can browser (see) registered ...
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How DNS service discovery, multicast DNS and Bonjour are related?

I am a bit lost in the terminology. I wanted to start to use Bonjour. As the first step, I tried to find an easy way to use it. And I thought that I, probably, can call Bonjour from the command line ...
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How do I register a service with Bonjour?

I am trying to start to use Bonjour. Here I found a manual how to register a service with Bonjour. The following is written there: The network services architecture in Bonjour includes an ...
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What could cause my OS X machine's mdns ip address to be wrong?

I have an Ubuntu 9.04 box and a OS X 10.5 box. They are both on the same subnet (192.168.10.0/24). I can see ubuntu.local and osx.local from the OS X machine, but I can only see ubuntu.local from ...