[avahi] Questions regarding service types

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

Hello,

   I'm building an application, fairly specific application and not 
likely to become a wide spread tool. As part of the system, I'd like for 
the administration application to be able to find/see client machines 
when on the same network without much configuration. Seems like Avahi 
will do this very well. I've been playing with the examples, and have 
some questions about the service types. I see that I can put my own 
service type _somestring._tcp and my own service name, however when 
looking at avahi-discover. It basically just shows _somestring._tcp.

I'm curious about what the best way to proceed forward in a situation 
like this. Do I request an entry in the service-types db avahi uses? 
Since it isn't likely to be used by anyone except a select few clients 
of mine, it seems a bit odd to do that. I can always patch my own 
version of avahi's service types, but before I went that route I thought 
I would ask here what the options/opinions were.

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Nathanael d. Noblet
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