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My Android immediately becomes the remote control of my Sonos system whenever I approach my house, so it seems to me that Android's network service discovery is
by thrownaway2424 13y ago
My Android immediately becomes the remote control of my Sonos system whenever I approach my house, so it seems to me that Android's network service discovery is adequate for at least some purposes, whether it uses mDNS or not (I'm pretty sure Sonos uses multicast HTTP, FWIW.)
- rquirk 13y agoAndroid doesn't resolve names like machinename.local though. At least not for me - I hit this problem on a Nexus 7 just this weekend. I ended up putting the IP address in. Perhaps it is application specific, though name resolution seems like something that'd be baked in at a lower level than that. Anyway I tried in Firefox where it attempted to resolve www.machinename.local, and also a VNC application which just timed out.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoI imagine that allowing multicast resolution system-wide is fraught with security problems, and most Android phones are whored out to random wifi networks all over the world.