Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/howl.html

Scott Herscher decided to cease development of HOWL.
That means only Avahi and Bonjour are left as
widely known mDNS/DNS-SD implementations.

Scott, your work on HOWL has not been in vain. Many Linux/Free Software
people (including me) learned to know Zeroconf with your software. Without the
troubles surrounding the licensing, I would never have started what is now
known as Avahi, and HOWL would still be the number one of the Linux mDNS/DNS-SD
implementations.

The HOWL legacy will live on, since Avahi includes a HOWL compatibility layer which will be kept around for a while.

A year and a few weeks ago Trent and I decided to merge our efforts and
form Avahi from our seperate works. I wonder how much time it will take us
until we see a similar R.I.P. note from the Bonjour camp, on our route to
AVAHI WORLD DOMINATION. 😉

In contrast to what Scott wrote in his announcement, Avahi is far from being
strictly Linux. Avahi has been ported to FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOSX and recently
(not yet official) Solaris. (However, he’s right with what he writes
about me.)