[avahi] synchronous service discovery

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 04.05.06 17:26, Mihai Ibanescu (misa+avahi at redhat.com) wrote:

Hi!

> Thanks for the detailed response. Since (for now) I am only using unicast DNS,
> I'll probably just follow your advice. I didn't want to add the complexity of
> (and dependency upon) an event loop when simple DNS lookups for PTR records
> were enough.
> 
> As I found out, there are no good DNS libaries for python that are in
> widespread use, as far as I can tell, and it's yet another dependency
> - that's why I was looking for something within avahi.

I don't think Avahi makes such a good unicast DNS client. In fact it
is a very limited implementation of a DNS client. Just good enough for
the few things required to make DNS-SD over unicast DNS possible. Some
things you might find in a proper DNS client lib are not supported by
Avahi. Most notably non-recursive lookups come to my mind here.

If you need just unicast DNS, have you checked out the standard libc
resolver API? (See resolver(3) for more information)

Lennart

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