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

[anton feldmann]

Sebastien Estienne schrieb:
> 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.
>

yeah but how do i write the demon?

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

I do not work with python, i never wrote a application in python.

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

I installed avahi locally but i did not find the folder 
/etc/avahi/services .
do i need root privileges?

cheers

anton

> 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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>> > --
>> > Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
>> > Bur.st Networking Inc.
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