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.Dd April 2004              \" Date
.Dt dns-sd 1                \" Document Title
.Os Darwin                  \" Operating System
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.Sh NAME
.Nm dns-sd
.Nd Multicast DNS (mDNS) & DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) Test Tool \" For whatis
.\" 
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm Fl E
.Pp
.Nm Fl F
.Pp
.Nm Fl R Ar name type domain port Op Ar key=value ...
.Pp
.Nm Fl B Ar      type domain
.Pp
.Nm Fl L Ar name type domain
.Pp
.Nm Fl P Ar name type domain port host IP Op Ar key=value ...
.Pp
.Nm Fl q Ar name rrtype rrclass
.Pp
.Nm Fl Z Ar      type domain
.Pp
.Nm Fl G Ns \ v4/v6/v4v6 Ar      name
.Pp
.Nm Fl V
.\"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
command is a network diagnostic tool, much like
.Xr ping 8
or
.Xr traceroute 8 .
However, unlike those tools, most of its functionality is not implemented in the
.Nm
executable itself, but in library code that is available to any application.
The library API that
.Nm
uses is documented in
.Pa /usr/include/dns_sd.h .
The
.Nm
command replaces the older
mDNS
command.
.Pp
The
.Nm
command is primarily intended for interactive use.
Because its command-line arguments and output format are subject to change,
invoking it from a shell script will generally be fragile. Additionally,
the asynchronous nature of DNS Service Discovery does
not lend itself easily to script-oriented programming. For example,
calls like "browse" never complete; the action of performing a "browse"
sets in motion machinery to notify the client whenever instances of
that service type appear or disappear from the network. These
notifications continue to be delivered indefinitely, for minutes,
hours, or even days, as services come and go, until the client
explicitly terminates the call. This style of asynchronous interaction
works best with applications that are either multi-threaded, or use a
main event-handling loop to receive keystrokes, network data, and other
asynchronous event notifications as they happen.
.br
If you wish to perform DNS Service Discovery operations from a
scripting language, then the best way to do this is not to execute the
.Nm
command and then attempt to decipher the textual output, but instead to
directly call the DNS-SD APIs using a binding for your chosen language.
.br
For example, if you are programming in Ruby, then you can
directly call DNS-SD APIs using the dnssd package documented at
.Pa <http://rubyforge.org/projects/dnssd/> .
.br
Similar bindings for other languages are also in development.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width E
.It Nm Fl E
return a list of domains recommended for registering(advertising) services.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl F
return a list of domains recommended for browsing services.
.Pp
Normally, on your home network, the only domain you are likely to see is "local". 
However if your network administrator has created Domain Enumeration records, 
then you may also see other recommended domains for registering and browsing.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl R Ar name type domain port Op Ar key=value ...
register (advertise) a service in the specified
.Ar domain 
with the given
.Ar name
and
.Ar type
as listening (on the current machine) on
.Ar port.
.Pp
.Ar name
can be arbitrary unicode text, containing any legal unicode characters
(including dots, spaces, slashes, colons, etc. without restriction),
up to 63 UTF-8 bytes long.
.Ar type
must be of the form "_app-proto._tcp" or "_app-proto._udp", where
"app-proto" is an application protocol name registered at
.Pa http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml .
.Pp
.Ar domain
is the domain in which to register the service.
In current implementations, only the local multicast domain "local" is
supported. In the future, registering will be supported in any arbitrary
domain that has a working DNS Update server [RFC 2136]. The
.Ar domain
"." is a synonym for "pick a sensible default" which today
means "local".
.Pp
.Ar port
is a number from 0 to 65535, and is the TCP or UDP port number upon
which the service is listening.
.Pp 
Additional attributes of the service may optionally be described by
key/value pairs, which are stored in the advertised service's DNS TXT
record. Allowable keys and values are listed with the service
registration at
.Pa http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml .
.It Nm Fl B Ar type domain
browse for instances of service
.Ar type
in
.Ar domain .
.Pp
For valid 
.Ar type Ns s
see
.Pa http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml .
as described above. Omitting the
.Ar domain
or using "." means "pick a sensible default."
.It Nm Fl L Ar name type domain
look up and display the information necessary to contact and use the
named service: the hostname of the machine where that service is
available, the port number on which the service is listening, and (if
present) TXT record attributes describing properties of the service.
.Pp
Note that in a typical application, browsing may only happen rarely, while lookup
(or "resolving") happens every time the service is used. For example, a
user browses the network to pick a default printer fairly rarely, but once
a default printer has been picked, that named service is resolved to its
current IP address and port number every time the user presses Cmd-P to
print.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl P Ar name type domain port host IP Op Ar key=value ...
create a proxy advertisement for a service running on(offered by) some other machine.
The two new options are Host, a name for the device and IP, the address of it.
.Pp
The service for which you create a proxy advertisement does not necessarily have to be on your local network. 
You can set up a local proxy for a website on the Internet.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl q Ar name rrtype rrclass
look up any DNS name, resource record type, and resource record class, 
not necessarily DNS-SD names and record types.
If rrtype is not specified, it queries for the IPv4 address of the name, 
if rrclass is not specified, IN class is assumed. If the name is not a fully 
qualified domain name, then search domains may be appended.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl Z Ar type domain
browse for service instances and display output in zone file format.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl G Ns \ v4/v6/v4v6 Ar name
look up the IP address information of the name.
If v4 is specified, the IPv4 address of the name is looked up, 
if v6 is specified the IPv6 address is looked up. If v4v6 is specified both the IPv4 and IPv6 
address is looked up. If the name is not a fully qualified domain name, 
then search domains may be appended.
.Pp
.It Nm Fl V
return the version of the currently running daemon/system service.
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Pp
To advertise the existence of LPR printing service on port 515 on this
machine, such that it will be discovered by the Mac OS X printing software
and other DNS-SD compatible printing clients, use:
.Pp
.Dl Nm Fl R Ns \ \&"My Test\&" _printer._tcp. \&. 515 pdl=application/postscript
.Pp
For this registration to be useful, you need to actually have LPR service
available on port 515. Advertising a service that does not exist is not
very useful, and will be confusing and annoying to other people on the
network.
.Pp
Similarly, to advertise a web page being served by an HTTP
server on port 80 on this machine, such that it will show up in the
Bonjour list in Safari and other DNS-SD compatible Web clients, use:
.Pp
.Dl Nm Fl R Ns \ \&"My Test\&" _http._tcp \&. 80 path=/path-to-page.html
.Pp
To find the advertised web pages on the local network (the same list that
Safari shows), use:
.Pp
.Dl Nm Fl B Ns \ _http._tcp
.Pp
While that command is running, in another window, try the
.Nm Fl R
example given above to advertise a web page, and you should see the
"Add" event reported to the
.Nm Fl B
window. Now press Ctrl-C in the
.Nm Fl R
window and you should see the "Remove" event reported to the
.Nm Fl B
window.
.Pp
In the example below, the www.apple.com web page is advertised as a service called "apple", 
running on a target host called apple.local, which resolves to 17.149.160.49.
.Pp
.Dl Nm Fl P Ns \ apple _http._tcp \&"\&"\& 80 apple.local 17.149.160.49
.Pp
The Bonjour menu in the Safari web browser will now show "apple".
The same IP address can be reached by entering apple.local in the web browser.
In either case, the request will be resolved to the IP address and browser will show
contents associated with www.apple.com.
.Pp
If a client wants to be notified of changes in server state, it can
initiate a query for the service's particular record and leave it running.
For example, to monitor the status of an iChat user you can use:
.Pp
.Dl Nm Fl q Ns \ someone@ex1._presence._tcp.local txt
.Pp
Everytime status of that user(someone) changes, you will see a new TXT record result reported.
.Pp
You can also query for a unicast name like www.apple.com and monitor its status.
.Pp 
.Dl Nm Fl q Ns \ www.apple.com
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.Pa /usr/bin/dns-sd \" Pathname
.\"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mDNSResponder 8
.\"
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
bugs are tracked in Apple Radar component "mDNSResponder".
.\"
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).