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Add support for service sub-types on Windows
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enhancement
platform issue
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 81
- Forks
- 48
- Avg merge
- 23h 58m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 2
Description
Currently the Win32 DNS APIs do not appear to support registration of services with sub-types. Investigate whether there are ways to make this happen or report this upstream to Microsoft.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by investigating the Win32 DNS APIs mentioned in the issue and whether they can register services with sub-types. If the APIs cannot support this, determine how to report the limitation upstream to Microsoft; done means either a viable support path is identified or the upstream limitation is reported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100