mDNS Service and Utility

This directory contains the implementation of the fuchsia.net.mdns service and mdns-util, a developer utility for issuing mDNS-related commands from a console.

Service

The service subdirectory builds the mdns package, which provides the mDNS service implementation, and the mdns_config package, which registers the service and instructs the component manager to start the service on boot.

The mdns service will log mDNS-related network traffic if:

1. the enable_mdns_trace gn arg is set to true, and
2. tracing is turned on using mdns-util ($ mdns-util verbose).

Utility

The utility, mdns-util has the following usage:

commands:
    resolve <host_name>
    subscribe <service_name>
    respond <service_name> <instance_name> <port>
    verbose (requires enable_mdns_trace gn arg)
    quiet (requires enable_mdns_trace gn arg)
options:
    --timeout=<seconds>       # applies to resolve
    --text=<text,...>         # applies to respond
    --announce=<subtype,...>  # applies to respond
options must precede the command
<host_name> and <instance_name> cannot end in '.'
<service_name> must start with '_' and end in '._tcp.' or '._udp.'

For detailed constraints on the format of strings, see the FIDL definition.

• resolve resolves a host name to one or two IP addresses.
• subscribe searches for service instances on the local subnet.
• respond publishes a service using instance on the local subnet.
• verbose turns on mDNS traffic logging.
• quiet turns off mDNS traffic logging.

In order for traffic logging to work, the enable_mdns_trace gn arg must be set during the build.