[avahi] How do i publish my ip in the network

[Sebastien Estienne]

you could do this by publishing a service of your own.
and then have a deamon that browse for this specific service and
update the host file you need.

all of this could be easily done with a python script.

for the publishing part you could use the .service in /etc/avahi/services
or better, your small deamon that browse could also publish.

On 6/19/06, Anton Feldmann <anton.feldmann at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> Hi Trent
>
> In basic we have a selfbooting CD like knoppix and we have to make it
> work for parallel computing.
> I want to publish the computer IP's in a network because, I want to
> write the IP's into a hostfile. We have to write a program that are
> filling a hostfile for PVM and MPI. PVM and MPI needs a hostfile for
> parallel computing. I wrote a program, but you have to write down the
> Servers name and the client find the server and gets the IP. I was
> thinking about to upgrade the program by makeing a loop to all 255
> addresses in an network. But I have to do it 6 times per minute and it
> seems really bat, because the hugh network overhead.
>
> I was thinking: If you booting the cd a client-server application is
> starting. The client is looking in the network for the IP addresses of
> the servers and write the IP's down into the hostfile.
> I want to try avahi to brows the IP's in the network.
>
> cherrs
>
> anton
>
>
> ----- Originalnachricht -----
> Von: Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
> Datum: Dienstag, Juni 13, 2006 2:56 am
> Betreff: Re: [avahi] How do i publish my ip in the network
> An: Avahi ML <avahi at lists.freedesktop.org>
>
> > Hi Anton,
> >
> > Avahi doesn't have the facility to simply "get all the IPs of all
> > computers on the network" - you may be able to do this to some extent
> > using the _workstation._tcp service, but not all machines are
> > guaranteedto be publishing this.
> >
> > If this is for a specific service, then I recommend you run avahi on
> > each computer and publish a service for whatever you are doing,
> > then you
> > can start a service browser, find all computers advertising that
> > service,then iterate over them to get their addresses.
> >
> > Perhaps if you give some more details on exactly what you are
> > trying to
> > do, I can help further...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Trent
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:54:39AM +0200, anton feldmann wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > my name is anton. I want to know how do i publish the my
> > computer's ip
> > > in the local network with Avahi? I already wrote a program to
> > send the
> > > server ip to a client , but it is cost-effective, it's written
> > with c
> > > using sockets.
> > > How do i get all Ip's of all computer in the local network using
> > the
> > > same System (Linux debian) suing avahi?
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > anton
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Sebastien Estienne