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Bonjour Overview

Bonjour is a powerful new system for finding and publishing network services, such as Web servers, file servers, and printers, on Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This system adds the simplicity and ease-of-use of AppleTalk to the power of IP network services.

Bonjour is Apple’s implementation of zero-configuration networking over IP and is based on IETF standard protocols (IP, ARP, DNS, etc.). Bonjour comes out of the work of the IERF Zeroconf Working Group.

This section describes some of the problems that Bonjour solves and how it solves them.

Contents:

Why Bonjour?
What is Bonjour?
Programming in Bonjour
Bonjour and Domain Names

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