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The changes made to Avahi are an attempt to transform it into an xmDNS server as described here:

here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lynn-dnsext-site-mdns-01

Why would you want to do that? One reason is that xmDNS is required in order to implement SEP 2.0 - Smart Energy Profile protocol.

These changes are incomplete but sufficient to meet the xmDNS spec on a local segment. No idea if this will work across routers at a single site.

Modifications:

• Multicast address changed to ff05::fb (No longer works as an mDNS server!!)
• Partial support added for .site domain -- enough to make it work.

Steps to build, install and run (from docs/INSTALL):

Many pacakges are required just to get through the ./configure step. On Ubuntu 12.04, the following Ansible task was used:

- name: Packages required for Avahi build process
  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=latest
  with_items:
  - intltool
  - pkg-config
  - libgtk2.0-dev
  - libqt3-mt-dev
  - libqt4-core
  - qt4-dev-tools
  - libgtk-3-dev
  - libdbus-1-dev
  - libgdbm-dev
  - libdaemon-dev
  - python-gtk2
  - mono-mcs
  - monodoc-base
  - gtk-sharp2

Once these are installed, the build scripts should run to completion without serious error:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ make install
$ sudo ldconfig
$ sudo kill -HUP `cat /var/run/dbus/pid`
$ /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start

AVAHI SERVICE DISCOVERY SUITE

WEB SITE:

http://avahi.org/

GIT:

git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.git

GITWEB:

http://git.0pointer.de/?p=avahi.git;a=summary

MAILING LIST:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi

GIT COMMITS MAILING LIST:

https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/avahi-commits

TRAC TICKET CHANGES MAILING LIST:

https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/avahi-tickets

IRC:

#avahi on irc.freenode.org

CIA:

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/avahi

FRESHMEAT:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/avahi/

OHLOH:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/avahi/

AUTHORS:

Several