[avahi] browsing for services on a specific multicast address

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 13.03.09 09:09, Alon Noy (alon.noy at ilsemedia.nl) wrote:

> I have a situation like this:
> On my local network I have number of file servers which announce 
> themselves using zeroconf. The servers are being split into groups by 
> using a specific multicast address for each group.
> My question is, how can I use avahi to browse for services on a specific 
> multicast address.
> In my documentation there is an example using Apple tools, according to 
> this example I can do something like:
> dns-sd -B 225_0_10_100._ftp._tcp
> to browse for ftp services on multicast address 225.0.10.100
> 
> Can I do this with the avahi client api?

No. This is not supported.

Could you please point me to some documentation of this logic?

Lennart

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