Re: NetBSD as a TimeCapsule?

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 18 Mar 2014 at 16:50, Fredrik Pettai wrote:

> 
> > Just a reflection on NetBSD's mdnsd(8):
> > 
> > NetBSD's mdnsd(8) (version 212.1) was imported into NetBSD in September 
> > 2009.
> > My old Snow Leopard (which is probably one of few left) is running version 
> > 258.21, so the version imported into NetBSD originates from Leopard. So 
> > mdnsd in NetBSD seems more than obsolete. If no one plan to upgrade it, 
> > maybe it should be removed from the next major release of NetBSD ?
> 
> I was informed that a newer version of mdnsd(8) is available in 
> pkgsrc/net/mDNSresponder, so I installed that to see if that would help, but 
> it fails to start with the message:
> 
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: mDNSResponder (Engineering Build) (Mar 
> 18 2014 14:43:05) starting
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: ERROR: bind(listenfd, (struct sockaddr 
> *) &laddr, sizeof(laddr)); failed: 48 (Address already in use)
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: ERROR: udsserver_init: 48 (Address 
> already in use)
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: mDNS_AddDNSServer: Lock not held! 
> mDNS_busy (0) mDNS_reentrancy (0)
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: mDNS_AddDNSServer: Lock not held! 
> mDNS_busy (0) mDNS_reentrancy (0)
> Mar 18 14:56:53 xsrv1 mDNSResponder: mDNSResponder (Engineering Build) (Mar 
> 18 2014 14:43:05) stopping
> 
> and the bundled dns-sd doesn't seem to work well either:
> 
> xsrv1# /usr/pkg/bin/dns-sd -V
> DNSServiceGetProperty failed -65563
> 
> (still testing on the NetBSD 6.1.3/amd64 host...)
> 
> So to iterate over this again, is anybody using mDNSresponder successfully on 
> NetBSD? (either the bundled in NetBSD, or the pkgsrc version...)
> 
> /P
> 

Hi

My amd systems aren't usable just now and have been running 
i386 anyway. On an i386 system mdnsd fails to start but after
adding user _mdnsd and group _mdnsd: 

$ /etc/rc.d/mdnsd onestart
$ ps ax | grep mdnsd
6020 ?   Ss  0:00.01 /usr/sbin/mdnsd


I've no idea how to test if it does anything useful


David