A simple python api for common zeroconf mdns operations. Py-MDNS uses the OS's native MDNS utilities to publish and find discoverable services.

1. git clone git@github.com:D1plo1d/py-mdns.git
2. cd py-mdns
3. sudo python setup.py install

import mdns

# This will add a new "my_test" discoverable service
# to the locahost's MDNS service daemon (bonjour or avahi).
services = ({'type': '_my_test._tcp', 'port': 1234, 'domain': "local."})
mdns.publisher().save_group({'name': 'my_test', 'services': services })

• Abstracted backend mechanism from regular API usage.
• Unit test framework in place.
• Avahi Publisher is working.
• Example publisher & resolver is working.

• Will initially be based from avahi api. Should interface what we can to allow for future Bonjour impl.
• Mostly does mdns publish & lookup.
• Should be able to resolve a single host name, or a group of names (tied to a dbus service).
• Should hide dbus and avahi calls as much as possible.
• Should present a simple API interface to downstream callers.
• Should allow for configurable wait time (if possible) while looking up a host.
• Should not be directly tied to a GUI API.
• API should return multiple lookup in a set or array.
• API should allow for some basic filtering of records based upon common use cases of lookup.