[Asterisk-Dev] Rendezvous (aka Zeroconf) for Asterisk

[Holger Schurig]

> Anyway, the idea is to let Asterisk advertise services so that IP
> phones can discover those services and configure themselves
> automatically. The libraries are built in to Darwin and Apple has
> released the code as open source with Linux compatibility. A Windoze
> version is available as a technology preview.

Why not use something that is already used by other softwares, e.g.
the Service Location Protocol?

Accoring to Debian Unstable, libslp1 is used by

  cupsys
  krdc
  krfb
  ldap-utils
  libslp-dev
  netatalk
  nis
  slapd
  slptool

So very different things like CUPS, VNC-Servers (krfb) and networking
services (even Apple Talk, sic!) use this.

Also, because it doesn't need to modify some entries in some DNS server
it should be easier to deploy. Not every DNS server allows modification
of service level entries.

http://www.openslp.org/