[avahi] Local only services

[Yavor Goulishev]

 Great!
I really need this feature.
BTW I tried implementing something, but I'm not that much familiar with the
avahi internals.
I'm attaching my patch. Basically I was able to transfer registered local
services into the cache without receiving a messages on the network.
Of course that is just one step. The cache needs to be kept up to date.
I used the following call to test:
    avahi_server_add_service(server, group, 1, AVAHI_PROTO_UNSPEC,
AVAHI_PUBLISH_NO_ANNOUNCE, "My Service Name", "_daap._tcp", NULL, NULL,
7777, "foo", NULL);

I used avahi-0.6.21 source.

--Yavor

PS: I'll file a wishlist bug too.

On Feb 12, 2008 6:17 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 24.01.08 10:46, Yavor Goulishev (ygoulishev at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I'm trying to register local only services.
> > The services should not be visible from other machines.
> >
> > I can do this with Bonjour by passing the interface index
> > kDNSServiceInterfaceIndexLocalOnly (-1) to the DNSServiceRegister
> function
> > call.
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't do this with Avahi. Passing -1 for the interface
> index
> > means unspecified.
> > Looking at the core code, this feature is not implemented.
> > Are there any plans for implementing it?
>
> Hmm, I wasn't aware of this feature of Bonjour. It might make sense to
> add this. Please file a wishlist bug on our BTS so I don't forget
> about this.
>
> I see no practical reason why we shouldn't implement something like this.
>
> > Is there any other way to register local only services with Avahi?
>
> Nope. We have some stuff to implement the inverse (i.e. not show local
> services), but I guess that doesn't help much..,
>
> Lennart
>
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