net/mDNSResponder - The NetBSD Packages Collection

Apple's mDNS responder

The mDNSResponder project is a component of Bonjour, Apple's ease-of-use IP
networking initiative: 

Apple's Bonjour software derives from the ongoing standardization work of the
IETF Zero Configuration Networking Working Group: 

The Zeroconf Working Group has identified three requirements for Zero
Configuration Networking:
1. An IP address (even when there is no DHCP server to assign one)
2. Name-to-address translation (even when there is no DNS server)
3. Discovery of Services on the network (again, without infrastucture)

Requirement 1 is met by self-assigned link-local addresses, as
described in "Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses"


Requirement 2 is met by sending DNS-like queries via Multicast (mDNS).

Requirement 3 is met by DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD).

Self-assigned link-local address capability has been available since
1998, when it first appeared in Windows '98 and in Mac OS 8.5.
Implementations for other platforms also exist.

Build dependencies

pkgtools/mktools devel/bison devel/m4 devel/gmake pkgtools/cwrappers

Runtime dependencies

(none)

Binary packages

OSArchitectureVersion
NetBSD 10.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0aarch64ebmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0alphamDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0sparc64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0vaxmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 10.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0aarch64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0alphamDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv6hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0earmv7hfmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0i386mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0powerpcmDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0sparc64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.0x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz
NetBSD 9.3x86_64mDNSResponder-258.14nb3.tgz

Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.

Available build options

inet6
Enable support for IPv6.

Known vulnerabilities

The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.

Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.


Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.