Comments on: PSA: mDNS and .local ICE candidates are coming

By: Anonym

Anonym — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 19:07:12 +0000

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By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:44:31 +0000

Bob,

Signaling is out of scope of WebRTC. If you only have a phone number then you can’t use WebRTC. Usually services have their users either registered or access specific designated “rooms” where they can reach out to each other or meet. It is up to the application using WebRTC to figure this part out.

By: Robert P Bernardi

Robert P Bernardi — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:14:02 +0000

BlogGeek,
WebRTC question. How do I initiate a video chat using WebRTC on my phone if I don’t know the recipients IP address. I only have his phone number.
It seems that not knowing the recipients private IP addresses will limit WebRTC adoption.
Bob

By: Mike Kirouac

Mike Kirouac — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:25:37 +0000

In reply to Victor Gonzalez.

The control in Firefox which re-enables including LAN IP addresses in SDPs is:
1. In a Firefox tab, enter URL “about:config”.
2. Search for field “media.peerconnection.ice.obfuscate_host_addresses”.
3. Change from TRUE to FALSE.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:47:22 +0000

In reply to Victor Gonzalez. What do you mean by "the same problem"? It shares mDNS addresses for local candidates?

By: Victor Gonzalez

Victor Gonzalez — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:47:02 +0000

Hey! Thanks for sharing this. It was very helpful. I hava a question. In recent versions of Firefox we have the same problem, but I couldn’t find a setting like the one that exists in Chrome. Do you have any idea of what we can do please?

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:23:19 +0000

In reply to Daniel Marin.

Daniel,

I am not sure about predictability within the same session or same browser. The experiment runs in a way that a small population of those running a Chrome browser would use mDNS while others won’t. While you can force a browser to act as if he is part of the experiment, doing the opposite isn’t possible as far as I am aware – and it is definitely impossible from the side of the server.

By: Daniel Marin

Daniel Marin — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:11:34 +0000

Why do you mean by: “It runs almost “randomly” on Chrome browsers”? Is there any way to know when is this feature enabled? I am making some tests and it seems to be absolutely unpredictable, even in the same session.

By: Francesco

Francesco — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:36:58 +0000

* It was a subscriber only, so no GUM was accepted, sorry

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 12:28:23 +0000

In reply to Francesco.

Francesco, this is why I wrote this article.

That said, the best place to write such commently is the discuss-webrtc mailing list – it is where Google engineers will actually be looking for such things.