DNS-SD Service Discovery on a Local Network: mDNS Behavior Under Load
mDNS works well until it doesn't. On a network with 80+ IoT devices all announcing simultaneously after a power cycle, the probing storm is a real problem.
mDNS works well until it doesn't. On a network with 80+ IoT devices all announcing simultaneously after a power cycle, the probing storm is a real problem.
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- mdns
- dns-sd
- networking
- iot
- service-discovery
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