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Feature #3465

Updated by Junxiao Shi almost 9 years ago

Currently, the [autoconfig stages include](http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/manpages/ndn-autoconfig.html#ndn-hub-discovery-procedure): 

 1. - discovery of hub within Ethernet or IP multicast domains 
 2. - discovery using DNS with domain suffixes obtained from DHCP 
 3. - discovery using pre-configured security credentials 

 The first stage needs to get extended to include mDNS / DNS-SD queries to discover locally available hub.    Anecdotally, mDNS queries have higher chance to work than other protocols, even though they utilize the same IP multicast.    This is a result of optimizations some hardware vendors did to allow mDNS to work while limiting multicast capabilities.

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