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

Es ist vollbracht! Today, at 10:54 am — 66 min before deadline — I
handed in my diploma thesis ^[1]. In a few weeks time you may call me
Diplom-Informatiker… Herr Diplom-Informatiker.

That’s all.

Footnotes:

[1] Thesis title is Diensteverwaltung in Ad-Hoc-Netzwerken
(which roughly translates to Service Discovery in Ad-Hoc Networks).
Basically, the thesis is about “Mesh-DNS”, a protocol akin to Multicast DNS (mDNS), which scales
better, fixes a few things and takes Mesh network architectures into account.
It is intended to be integrated into Avahi and
to be used as service discovery protocol in OLPC. It is compatible with DNS-SD, but replaces mDNS. Due to that all
existing software linking against Avahi can make use of it without any major
changes. It adds a zone .mesh which is organized by Mesh-DNS side-by-side to the mDNS-maintained zone .local. You will be able to enable support for Mesh-DNS at Avahi
compile time. Most likely most distros won’t enable it in their default builds,
although it offers quite a few features even outside OLPC, such as
automatic, idiot-proof router transparency.