The Network
LAN discovery with mDNS
Lesson 5 of 10
How nodes on the same network find each other automatically — multicast announcements, heartbeats, and pruning the dead.
What you'll learn
- Understand what mDNS is and why it needs no central server
- See how nodes announce themselves and discover peers on a LAN
- Know why presence needs heartbeats and a prune timeout
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