Avahi
Avahi is a framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery (mDNS/DNS-SD a.k.a. Zeroconf) on Linux. It allows programs to publish and discover services running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example, you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at, and people to talk to.
| Tags | Networking Software Development Libraries Internet DNS |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | Python C |
Recent releases
- 09 Jul 2008 13:23
Changes: A lot of translation updates were made. bvnc was beefed up quite a bit, including passing a domain in which to browse. The resource limit on the number of open files was increased to 300 so that Avahi can deal with more clients simultaneously. The "poof" algorithm was reworked a bit to reduce traffic load on noisy links. Build bugs and warnings were fixed. Assorted other minor updates were made.
- 17 Dec 2007 09:19
Changes: This release adds i18n support, documentation and example code updates, support for registering the Avahi documentation in devhelp, a new component named "libavahi-gobject" (a GObjectified version of the Avahi API), and major BSD compatibility improvements.
- 12 Aug 2007 12:00
Changes: Several stability bugfixes.
- 09 May 2007 18:20
Changes: A Mono/C# API wrapper for avahi-ui has been added. There are several minor cleanups, bugfixes, and additions.
- 18 Apr 2007 18:34
Changes: This release adds a new standard GTK dialog "avahi-ui" for browsing for services. avahi-autoipd has been ported to FreeBSD. Linux inotify support has been added. There are many bugfixes and minor improvements.
