MDNS client

[slaff]

Is it possible to create a mDNS client on the ESP8266? I want to be able to read information about advertised services like MQTT that are already provided from other devices on the network.

Thanks in advance!
SK

[ESP_Faye]

Hi,

mDNS client is not supported now, but we are working on it. It will be supported in the future.

Thanks for your interest in ESP8266 !

[dunk]

Is it possible to create a mDNS client on the ESP8266? I want to be able to read information about advertised services like MQTT that are already provided from other devices on the network.

i wrote some Arduino code to do exactly this so i could discover the Mosquitto Brokers on my network without having to configure the ESP8266
here:
https://github.com/mrdunk/esp8266_mdns

it's written in fairly generic C++ style so the section that de-codes the mDNS packets could easily be ported to another language.

hope it helps someone,
dunk.

[jan]

Hello,

I am also interested to use mDNS client functionality on the esp8266. Any news on when it will be available?

BR,
Jan