What You ve Learned

What You've Learned

• Zeroconf is an IETF working group whose purpose is to enable IP networking without configuration.

• Apple's implementation of Zeroconf is called Bonjour.

• Zeroconf and Bonjour have three main areas of work: addressing, naming, and service discovery (browsing).

• Address assignment is implemented using IPv4 link-local addressing.

• Naming is handled by multicast DNS.

• Service discovery is handled by DNS Service Discovery.

• To troubleshoot Bonjour-enabled networks, you can use packet sniffers, logs, and third party utilities to determine the problem, as long as you're using unique Bonjour names.

References

URLs

Bonjour information: http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour

Zeroconf Working Group information: www.zeroconf.org

Apple Service and Support page: www.apple.com/support

Bonjour Browser provides a convenient GUI interface to explore what devices are responding to each Bonjour-enabled service: www.tildesoft.com/Programs.html

Multicast DNS: www.multicastdns.org