Avahi 0.6.17

Avahi is a framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery on Linux.
It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration.

For example, you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at, and people to talk to.


key features of "Avahi":
· Licensed under LGPL
· IPv4 and IPv6 support
· DBUS interface
· Drops all priviliges and runs as user "avahi"
· Embeddable mDNS stack (i.e. mDNS stack available as library)
· Support for loading static service definitions from XML fragments
· Interface to GLIBC NSS using [WWW]nss-mdns
· Ability to reflect mDNS traffic between multiple subnets
· Ability to configure a unicast DNS server automatically from server data published on the LAN

Requirements:
· expat
· [WWW]libdaemon
· Linux 2.4 or 2.6 with IP multicasting enabled
· glib2 (optional)
· DBUS 0.3x or newer (optional, for IPC with client applications)
· gtk2 + glade2 (optional, for the GUI avahi-discover-standalone tool)
· doxygen (optional, for the API documentation)
· Python2.4, pygtk2 (optional, for the client tools)
· python-twisted (optional, for the tool avahi-bookmarks)

What's New in This Release:
· This release will not accept "localhost" as a local mDNS host name.
· avahi-bookmarks can be run as a CGI script.
· libdns_sd compatibility has been improved.
· There is al ibdns_sd mutex locking order fix.
· IPv6 addresses can be published via IPv4 and vice versa.
· There are IA-64 fixes, and many minor cleanups and fixes.