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+name=ESP8266mDNS
+version=1.1
+author=tony@tonydicola.com
+maintainer=ivan@esp8266.com
+sentence=A port of CC3000 Multicast DNS library
+paragraph=This is a simple implementation of multicast DNS query support for an Arduino running on ESP8266 chip. Only support for resolving address queries is currently implemented.
+category=Communication
+url=
+architectures=esp8266
+dot_a_linkage=true