Title: zeroconf
Subject: Notes on zeroconf/bonjour/avahi
By: John Stile ( john@stilen.com ),
Copywrite: GPL

Stuart Cheshire:
  primary creator/maintainer of Rendezvous/Bonjour at Apple.
  co-chair on IETF ZeroConf working group
  wrote the O'Reilly book on Zero Configuration Networking
  "three-legged stool":
   1. IPv4 (and IPv6) link-local address,
   2. Multicast Name Resolution (mDNS)
   3. DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD)

hosts publish their own name via mDNS.


OSX Register a service:
  dns-sd -R <Name> <Type> <Domain> <Port> [<TXT>...] (Register a service)
  dns-sd -R MyWebsite _http._tcp local 80

Linux Discovery:
  avahi-browse -t -a