Socket discoverable by avahi

gauravpathak129 · 04-01-2015, 05:46 AM

Hello all,

Is it possible to advertise the port number of a custom created socket to be discoverable by other machines on network via zeroconf discovery?

I have a simple socket server C program, all I want is to make it as an avahi service. How can I achieve this?

TB0ne · 04-01-2015, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by gauravpathak129

Hello all,
Is it possible to advertise the port number of a custom created socket to be discoverable by other machines on network via zeroconf discovery? I have a simple socket server C program, all I want is to make it as an avahi service. How can I achieve this?

The first place to start, would be for you to look on Google for information. Did you??? Because putting "how to create an avahi service" in, pulls up lots...such as these, the first two hits:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...dding_Services
http://holyarmy.org/2008/01/advertis...-avahibonjour/

...which are complete with examples.

gauravpathak129 · 04-01-2015, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by TB0ne

The first place to start, would be for you to look on Google for information. Did you??? Because putting "how to create an avahi service" in, pulls up lots...such as these, the first two hits:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...dding_Services
http://holyarmy.org/2008/01/advertis...-avahibonjour/

...which are complete with examples.

Yes, I did looked on Google. I only got how to publish a service using "avahi-publish". I want to know that how can I make my C program as an avahi service in which I created a socket for accepting connections.

TB0ne · 04-02-2015, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by gauravpathak129

Yes, I did looked on Google. I only got how to publish a service using "avahi-publish". I want to know that how can I make my C program as an avahi service in which I created a socket for accepting connections.

That has absolutely NOTHING to do with avahi. After you get your program working, you advertise it. To break it down into two steps:

Get your program (written in C or whatever else), working and listening on whatever port you'd like.
Follow the well-documented steps to advertise it via avahi

gauravpathak129 · 04-02-2015, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by TB0ne

That has absolutely NOTHING to do with avahi. After you get your program working, you advertise it. To break it down into two steps:

Get your program (written in C or whatever else), working and listening on whatever port you'd like.
Follow the well-documented steps to advertise it via avahi

Thank you. I was misunderstood, I thought that avahi will handle all the things.

TB0ne · 04-02-2015, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by gauravpathak129

Thank you. I was misunderstood, I thought that avahi will handle all the things.

That's why doing basic research first is a good thing. There is ample documentation about avahi, what it does, how it does it, and how to configure it.