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Apple Releases Rendezvous for Linux, Java, Windows

Posted by timothy on from the it's-french-so-it-sounds-sexy dept.

mblase writes "Apple released yesterday a developers preview of their Rendezvous technology for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Java. Rendezvous is an open protocol which uses industry standard IP protocols to allow devices to automatically find each other without the need to enter IP addresses or configure DNS servers." Reader xxdarkxxmatterxx adds a link to a story at Macworld about the release."

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  1. Hopefully... by Cytlid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...it works better than SIP... I'm trying a local VOIP (over broadband) trial from a local ISP and it' s not working too well. I read up on SIP and found it could be my router's type of NAT munging the communication. Then again, it's a Cisco 186 ATA and I've heard Vonage dumped this piece of equipment for something else...

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  2. Re:Apple supports Internet Explorer??? by mbbac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    iTunes doesn't use WebCore at all.

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  3. Re:Apple supports Internet Explorer??? by infinii · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I actually use Firefox over Safari.

    Is it just personal preference? Why do you prefer Safari?

  4. Re:Apple supports Internet Explorer??? by CdBee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Feels fractionally faster and it has more geek appeal. - personal preference, basically.
    Also, I think that the best possible situation is where Gecko competes with KHTML on Windows as well as Mac and Linux as it will encourage both teams of code-writers to be the best they can be.

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  5. Re:UPNP vs zeroconf/rendezvous by toganet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I like this idea, but how is the security risk handled? Specifically, what prevents a malicious user from setting up a service with the same name and hijacking your application's users?

    Granted, we're talking about services inside a corporate network, which should be relatively safe from this kind of attack. Safe, but not immune (I could enter dressed as a delivery guy and set up my SFF PC on your network, etc.)

    Of course, there may be an obvious answer here, but I am no expert on rendezvous.