11-07-2023, 08:27 PM
Quote:...mDNS is not working on any phone, but on the router.
Huh?
mDNS is not a routable protocol nor is it managed by a router.
Drawing on Wikipedia
Quote:When an mDNS client needs to resolve a hostname, it sends an IP multicast query message that asks the host having that name to identify itself. That target machine then multicasts a message that includes its IP address. All machines in that subnet can then use that information to update their mDNS caches. Any host can relinquish its claim to a name by sending a response packet with a time to live (TTL) equal to zero.
By default, mDNS exclusively resolves hostnames ending with the .local top-level domain. This can cause problems if .local includes hosts that do not implement mDNS but that can be found via a conventional unicast DNS server. Resolving such conflicts requires network-configuration changes that mDNS was designed to avoid.
It was truly frustrating that the AndroidOS itself supported mDNS-function calls from early on but for some reason the Google folks didn't make them accessible from the search bar of their internet browsers. Ain't life wonderful?
Regards,
Kent
