[avahi] Questions regarding service types

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 08.04.11 15:19, Nathanael D. Noblet (nathanael at gnat.ca) wrote:

> 
> On 04/08/2011 07:24 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Thu, 07.04.11 09:28, Nathanael D. Noblet (nathanael at gnat.ca) wrote:
> >The database is used only and exclusively by avahi-browse and
> >avahi-discover. If you need your own private additions then feel free to
> >extend the database locally, but keep in mind that you need to rebuild
> >the binary version of it with that Python script.
> 
> Okay, so then does it matter? 

The database is useful only to make things pretty. It has no technical
purpose beyond that.

> I won't be using tahose apps, I was
> just using them as a way to test what was going on. Do other apps
> that look for published services use their own inhouse db? Or do
> they just search for particular service types and ignore the rest
> (in which case I don't need to worry about them showing up
> elsewhere)... ?

If you make up a new service type and believe it wil be used widely,
then yeah, we can register it in the upstream db.

Lennart

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