When creating Bonjour on Windows, MacOSx + iOS is unable to resolve the service

[tonetechnician]

Hi there,

Hoping someone may be able to provide some assistance. I'm trying to have my Windows bonjour service discovered on an iOS/MacOSx Bonjour browser.

I am using the basic startup code given in the module:

var bonjour = require('bonjour')()
 
// advertise an HTTP server on port 3000
bonjour.publish({ name: 'immersivedsp-server', type: 'http', port: 8001 })

So far, it seems to discover that the service is on the network, but is unable to resolve the service. My MacOSx bonjour browser just shows the name but no other information (immersivedsp-server):

When I run start the same Bonjour service on MacOSx it resolves and the MacOSx browser shows the correct information:

This is mirrored in my cordova iOS app that uses cordova-zeroconf-plugin. It shows that the service has been added but I never get the resolved message. This doesn't happen on Android.

Checking Wireshark, I see that the messages are definitely going across, so it seems to be an issue with only with the Mac/iOS.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!!

[tonetechnician]

I was able to solve this issue. Hopefully this can help if anyone else runs into the same issue.

I was required to specify the "host" field when publishing my bonjour service. something like this:

bonjour.publish({
    name: 'myService', 
    host: 'myService.local',
    type: 'http', 
    port: 8001,
});

I was able to discover on dns-sd on the Mac aswell as my Cordova app :)