Avahi is a free, LGPL mDNS/DNS-SD implementation.
Copyright 2004-2006 by the Avahi developers.
Avahi has a mailing list:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
You have a chance to meet the developers on
#avahi on irc.freenode.org
Please report bugs to the freedesktop.org bugzilla:
Avahi's SVN repository is freely accessible:
svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/avahi/trunk avahi
http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=avahi
Avahi has the following requirements:
- glib2
- expat
- libdaemon (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/)
- Linux 2.4 or 2.6
- DBUS 0.3x (optional, if you disable this, the daemon is not accessible over IPC to other applications!)
- gtk2 + glade (optional, needed for avahi-discover-standalone)
- doxygen (optional, needed for he API documentaton)
- Python 2.4, pygtk2 (optional, needed by all client tools)
- python-twisted (optional, needed by avahi-bookmarks)
- xmltoman (if building from SVN rather than a tarball) If you are not using debian or ubuntu, the upstream authors page has disappeared, but you can get the source from debian here http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xmltoman/xmltoman_0.3.orig.tar.gz
Please make sure to read the currently available documentation for avahi before asking for support on the mailing list:
- INSTALL
- Man pages
- Homepage http://avahi.org/
- Mailing list archive http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/
$Id: README 1314 2006-09-02 16:40:53Z lennart $