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It used to be that Windows would only resolve multicast DNS addresses (say, example.local) if iTunes was installed. Is that still true or has that changed in recent Windows versions? (I gave up on Windows years ago and so I cannot check easily myself.)

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    This appears to be a duplicate question. [This other question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23624525/standard-mdns-service-on-windows) is about 11 months old and basically says no. I didn't find any mention of them introducing it in Windows 10. – GuitarPicker Apr 24 '15 at 15:24

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DNS-SD and mDNS are available in a new extension to Windows.Devices.Enumeration in Windows 10.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows.networking.servicediscovery.dnssd.aspx

(Side note to these slides: The watcher.Updated event handler should be set in order for watcher.Added to trigger.)

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The latest Windows 10 Insider build has mDNS firewall rules and have added mDNS and DNS-SD code all over the core libraries in Windows. So the state will probably turn into full support in a future Windows update.

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