dnssd

DESCRIPTION:

DNS Service Discovery (aka Bonjour, MDNS) API for Ruby. Implements browsing, resolving, registration and domain enumeration. Supports avahi’s DNSSD compatibility layer for avahi 0.6.25 or newer.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

SYNOPSIS:

See the sample directory (Hint: gem contents --prefix dnssd)

Registering a service:

  http = TCPServer.new nil, 80
  
  DNSSD.announce http, 'my awesome HTTP server'

Browsing services:

  require 'dnssd'
  
  DNSSD.browse '_http._tcp.' do |reply|
    p reply
  end

REQUIREMENTS:

INSTALL:

  sudo gem install dnssd

If you have dnssd installed in a non-standard location you can use the build options —with-dnssd-dir and —with-dnssd-lib:

  sudo gem install dnssd -- \
    --with-dnssd-dir=/path/to/dnssd \
    --with-dnssd-lib=/path/to/lib/dnssd

Using the default Bonjour SDK install for Windows, the command to build the Ruby dnssd extension will look like this:

  # Windows 2000 or Windows XP
  sudo gem install dnssd -- \
     --with-dnssd-dir=c:/progra~1/bonjou~1 \
     --with-dnssd-lib=c:/progra~1/bonjou~1/lib/win32
  
  # Windows Vista and later
  sudo gem install dnssd -- \
     --with-dnssd-dir=c:/progra~2/bonjou~1 \
     --with-dnssd-lib=c:/progra~2/bonjou~1/lib/win32

LICENSE:

Copyright © 2004 Chad Fowler, Charles Mills, Rich Kilmer

Copyright © 2009 Phil Hagelberg, Aaron Patterson, Eric Hodel

Licensed under the ruby license

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