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Zero configuration networking (zeroconf) is a set of techniques that automatically creates a usable Internet Protocol (IP) network without manual operator intervention or special configuration servers.

Zero configuration networking (zeroconf) is a set of techniques that automatically creates a usable Internet Protocol (IP) network without manual operator intervention or special configuration servers.

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Are there any other Java libraries for bonjour/zeroconf apart from JMDNS?

Are there any other Java libraries for bonjour/zeroconf apart from JMDNS?
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How can I discover zeroconf (Bonjour) services on Android? I'm having trouble with jmDNS

I'm working with a Droid / Android 2.0.1 and encountering an issue apparently many people have: I'm unable to discover services using the one pure-Java zeroconf library I know of, jmDNS. (Apple's Bonjour, while it works on Linux and Windows Java, I…
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Android NSD not discovering all services

I'm trying to run an application using Android Native Service Discovery but sometimes when I run the application, it doesn't discover all services from my network. I'm running the code from https://github.com/joeluchoa/nsd using four galaxy nexus…
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Bonjour implementation on Android

I am trying to implement bonjour/zero conf on my android app. I am using jmDns library for searching the all the available devices. Here is the code that I am using for searching the devices in the same network: public class ListDevices extends…
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How to route all subdomains to a single host using mDNS?

I have a development webserver hosting as "myhost.local" which is found using Bonjour/mDNS. The server is running avahi-daemon. The webserver also wants to handle any subdomains of itself. Eg "cat.myhost.local" and "dog.myhost.local" and…
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Bonjour Discovery in Javascript? Maybe?

So its a longshot, I'll start with that. Is it/could it be possible to discover bonjour advertised HTTP services in javascript alone? Why would this be useful? Imagine a local service looking after some data (eg your current lat/long), the data is…
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Can Android support Zeroconf/Bonjour over Bluetooth? How about TCP/IP?

On iPhone if I create custom service for example "_test._tcp.local." in Bonjour I can seek/broadcast this service through WiFi or/and Bluetooth. It is possible on Android ? I know that there is jmDNS but from what I understand it works only through…
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Simplest way to publish over Zeroconf/Bonjour?

I've got some apps I would like to make visible with zeroconf. Is there an easy scriptable way to do this? Is there anything that needs to be done by my network admin to enable this? Python or sh would be preferrable. OS-specific suggestions…
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Can I use Bonjour from command line?

Is it possible to use Bonjour from command line? For example if I want to register a service I type something like that: bonjour -register service_name port. And then Bonjour allocate a free IP for my service. Or, for example, if I want to see a…
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Does lwIP support Zeroconf?

I see that lwIP has some AutoIP (aka IPv4LL, aka RFC 3927) code, but I can't tell if it does anything higher up in the Zeroconf stack, namely mDNS and DNS-SD (with RFC 2782). So, does lwIP support DNS-SD service discovery? If not, would it be easy…
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Avahi Hostname Resolution: Is it caching somewhere?

I am using Fedora 18 with the avahi command line tools (version 0.6.31) I use avahi-resolve-host-name to discover the IP address of units on my subnet, for testing purposes during development. I monitor the request and response with Wireshark. …
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How can I find the IP address of a host using mdns?

My target is to discover the IP address of a Linux computer "server" in the local network from a Windows computer. From another Linux computer "client" I can do: ping -c1 server.local and get a reply. Both "server" and "client" run Avahi, so this…
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LLMNR on Windows vs. Zeroconf vs. Bonjour

Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) is a Microsoft tech for service discovery based on multicast DNS. Is it compatible with Bonjour/Zeroconf? If so, where's the API? The service discovery, I take it, is somehow rolled into vanilla DNS…
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Local iOS-Android zeroconf ad-hoc networking

The Desired Functionality: User A is running your app on an Android or iOS device. User A can automatically find and communicate with other nearby (< 20 meters?) users B and C (Cross-Platform), whether they're running Android or iOS, and without…
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Redirecting ".local" subdomain to unicast DNS

I regularly access Windows domains that have been set up to use a domain under the .local top level name. This conflicts with Bonjour/Zeroconf which reserves .local for it's own use. A number of platforms support Bonjour out of the box (including…
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