Praise for Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide

“This book helps Zeroconf meet its promise of pain-free networking by providing hardware and software developers with the background and guidance they need in order to successfully include Zeroconf technology in their products.”

Yaron Goland, Director of Technology, BEA Systems, Inc., and original network architect of UPnP

“Ever wonder why it’s so hard to get two network devices to talk with each other? It doesn’t have to be! If only everyone used Zeroconf services, network connectivity would be plug and play. And now, with Stuart Cheshire’s wonderful and detailed new book, there’s no excuse to use anything else. It’s a must-read for hardware developers, software developers, and anyone wondering how Apple—and others—have built ‘it just works’ technology into iTunes, iPhoto, and virtually every printer on the market.”

Jim Louderback, Editorial Director, Ziff Davis Internet

“I routinely evaluate diverse network technologies in my job. I’ve found that for service advertising and discovery, there is nothing out there that compares to Zeroconf—all I had to do to incorporate it into our SoundBridge Network Music Player was to insert a single c file into my project and compile it. Zeroconf, however, is not only for devices—every Windows program I write that is a network client or offers a network service now uses Zeroconf for advertising and discovery, making Bonjour an indispensable tool in my bag of tricks. Kudos to Apple and their team of network scientists!”

Don Woodward, Chief Technology Officer, Roku

“If my PDA is ever going to be as useful as a Star Trek™ Datapad™, it’ll be because the Internet has Zeroconf.”

Paul Vixie

“This book is so good that it will shame software authors into making their network-aware apps easy to use!”

Mike Bell, VP of CPU software, Apple Macintosh Hardware Division

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