Avahi is a free, LGPL mDNS/DNS-SD implementation.

Copyright 2004-2009 by the Avahi developers.

http://avahi.org/

Avahi has a mailing list:

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

You have a chance to meet the developers on

#avahi on irc.libera.chat

Avahi has the following requirements:

- glib2 + gobject-introspection

- expat

- libdaemon (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/)

- libsystemd (optional, can be disabled with --disable-libsystemd)

- libevent (optional, needed for the libevent-based client library)

- D-Bus (optional, if you disable this, the daemon is not

accessible over IPC to other applications!)

- gtk2/gtk3 + glade (optional, needed for avahi-discover-standalone)

- doxygen (optional, needed for the API documentation)

- Python, pygobject, python-dbus (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/