[avahi] mDNS Reflector feature for Avahi daemon

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi all,

a colleague of mine and myself, we are currently working on a Debian  
based firewall project (debian-edu-router [1]) where we want to  
integration some sort of mDNS reflector service.

The demands for this is: We need several different  
uni-directional/bi-directional mDNS service type filters, applied to  
different sets of network interfaces.

The settings for this ideally should be configurable via config  
snippet drop-ins in some conf.d/ subdirectory of /etc/avahi/.

Is this a feature that would be acceptable to the avahi maintainers?  
If so, we would consider contributing the required changes /  
improvements.

We are, in parallel, also investigating, whether the mdns-reflector  
mini service would be a viable solution.

Also, another question: Is a new upstream release of Avahi something  
that is in near sight? I am asking, because we'd like to see this  
feature land in Debian testing/unstable in the next 6 months or so (at  
the latest for Debian 13 in +/- 2.5 - 3 years from now).

Looking forward to feedback, thanks,
Mike

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-router/
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