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What is Zeroconf?

Zero-configuration is a means of automatically detecting devices, or more abstractly, services on your local area network. Think printers, or apple devices and how easy they are to find on your network. They're just there...none of the usual messy ip configuration is necessary.

Zeroconf is a standard protocol which formulates this concept. More strictly, it is a protocol that represents three different functionalities:

Zeroconf Services

A zeroconf service that is published is defined by:

When discovering services, your implementation will resolve further details about the service, specifically:

It may also include a few implementation-specific variables.


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