Es ist vollbracht! Today, at 10:54 am – 66 min before deadline – I handed in my diploma thesis [1]. In a few weeks time you may call me Diplom-Informatiker… Herr Diplom-Informatiker.

That’s all.

Footnotes:

[1] Thesis title is Diensteverwaltung in Ad-Hoc-Netzwerken (which roughly translates to Service Discovery in Ad-Hoc Networks). Basically, the thesis is about “Mesh-DNS”, a protocol akin to Multicast DNS (http://www.multicastdns.org/) (mDNS), which scales better, fixes a few things and takes Mesh network architectures into account. It is intended to be integrated into Avahi (http://avahi.org/) and to be used as service discovery protocol in OLPC. It is compatible with DNS-SD (http://www.dns-sd.org/), but replaces mDNS. Due to that all existing software linking against Avahi can make use of it without any major changes. It adds a zone .mesh which is organized by Mesh-DNS side-by-side to the mDNS-maintained zone .local. You will be able to enable support for Mesh-DNS at Avahi compile time. Most likely most distros won’t enable it in their default builds, although it offers quite a few features even outside OLPC, such as automatic, idiot-proof router transparency.