Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation - A service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.
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Will OSX devices register to a Raspberry Pi running avahi-daemon
I have a Mac Mini on my local network running Plex Media Server on port 32400. The device is going to sleep mode after 1 hour of inactivity. I want the device to wake if a package is sent to it on port 32400.
If I understood it correctly I have to…

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How to resolve lost service details (Avahi, ZeroConf)?
I'm trying to write some kind of service browser with Avahi. Discovering and resolving new services works just fine, however I'm facing a problem when I try to resolve service that was lost in ItemRemoved handler.…

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Disable dependency to libssp library?
I am compiling avahi 0.6.27 for an embedded system with tinycore v3
I want to remove the dependency to the library ssp (stack smashing protection). For this I use the option --disable-stack-protector and compile. When running avahi-daemon still…

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avahi_entry_group_new() failed: Too many objects
I'm working on making a REST API for my research lab's database. I'm using the Django REST framework and I've gotten everything running smoothly on my local machine. All my code is in its own branch in our Mercurial repo. When I switch branches on…

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Use avahi in schroot (chroot) environment
I'm working on debian wheezy and use avahi to communicate with test hardware. For a renewal of the test suite I had to change to a chroot environment (jessie). Is there any possibility to find an 'avahi on chroot' solution, so that I can communicate…

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Why does Avahi "ant test-browse" fail with "libavahi4j.so: undefined symbol: avahi_malloc"?
I was able to successfully build avahi per the instructions, but the next step in the quick start of running "ant test-browse" results in a symbol lookup error, and I'm confused about how to proceed with troubleshooting this problem. I did find the…

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Building avahi for use in the Oracle jvm (error: jni.h not found)
This is a follow up to the following question: Compile errors when defining a macro to convert a case class instance into a map and back
The answer there resolved my initial problem -- I was not installing the dependencies. However, now I have a…

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Cannot build avahi4j: avahi4j_Client.c:18:32: fatal error: avahi-common/error.h: No such file or directory
Per the title of the post I'm trying to build avahi4j, but very quickly run into a wall after downloading: https://code.google.com/p/avahi4j/downloads/detail?name=avahi4j-0.1.tar.gz&can=2&q=
After extracting, and then executing ant clean all from…

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Where multicast packets could be filtered?
I installed openWRT distro on my router and enable support of avahi in it. My goal is to discover network services in my network.
I plugged my PC to LAN port with announced services. On router I run tcpdump on bridge interface : tcpdump -i br0 -vvn…

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How to fake IP for testing in python
I have a service that I'm publishing with avahi that could run on different machines.
And I have some code, that detecting and getting IP of that machines, and then starts using this service.
I wan't to automate tests, so I need to somehow fake…

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can't ping avahi alias from windows over LAN but can from other linux VMs
Context: i've set up a vm server for GIS testing and dokuwiki on the domain root. I'd like to serve the gis web apps on a subdomain so that dokuwiki url renaming will never conflict (and it just feels cleaner). I thought i had it solved with…

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avahi Segregated mDNS domains from one multi-homed host
We're attempting to enable a number of mDNS advertised services on our campus
wide wireless network, most notably airplay. In our case, the airServers would
sit on our wired network, so we need to advertise the services manually either
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how to get Android.mk when compile avahi on android,
I was assigned the task to use the android patch http://avahi.org/ticket/354 to compile avahi core to android.
After i use the patch ,there are no Android.mk files present in any of the Avahi subdirectories (like \avahi-core etc).How can i get…
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Linking error : undefined reference to `avahi_alternative_service_name'
in know i need to locate this symbol in library.. I am trying to compile avahi based test code to view services. But i am getting undefined reference toavahi_alternative_service_name'`.. I don't know which library contain this,I am running UBUNTU…

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Why does running avahi-browse within a docker container returns (NULL) network interfaces?
I'm attempting mDNS discovery from within a Docker container and running it using
sudo docker run --privileged -v /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus -v /var/run/avahi-daemon/socket:/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket -d -p 5001:5001 my_application
as shown in…

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