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Create the illusion that Bonjour works over a VPN
Yeah, OpenVPN is by far my favorite VPN solution. However, most people who use Macs and a VPN are using the Apple-provided VPN server which only does PPTP or L2TP/IPSec tunneling. OpenVPN uses SSL to create the secure tunnel and is generally a more configurable product…. The point still stands, though, that without "esoteric networking knowledge" you'll probably find mDNS queries blocked by a VPN.
Create the illusion that Bonjour works over a VPN
See, the problem I have with this is that you're providing a solution to use mDNS hostnames in another domain; thereby creating a kind of bridge. Now, it's hardly "esoteric" to distil that down to "Oh, I need an mDNS bridge", is it?
However, going digging in to the static files in /etc (many of which are ignored or deprecated in OS X) is seen as somehow (for want of a better word) unesoteric? Yeah sure, it'll work ... until it doesn't. I'm not laughing, I'm just puzzled why you'd go to all this effort to avoid learning something useful?
Create the illusion that Bonjour works over a VPN
You make a good point. I'm not trying to avoid learning something useful, I just haven't learned it yet and this was a solution that works for my admittedly simple situation. Also, I suppose it depends on what "estoric" means to you. Messing with --- |
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