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Won't mdns / zeroconf / avahi / however it's called this week work for ad-hoc networks? It surely does the trick in LAN. It won't work properly across routers,

Won't mdns / zeroconf / avahi / however it's called this week work for ad-hoc networks? It surely does the trick in LAN. It won't work properly across routers, at least not out of the box (tried that when configuring Tinc VPN), but maybe this would be a good direction?

teddyh 12y ago
The word you probably wanted to use was “Zeroconf”. “Zeroconf”¹ is a name for the sum of two interacting standards, namely mDNS”² and “DNS-SD”³. Avahi⁴ is a free software implementation (for Linux and BSD) for a service where programs can register Zeroconf services (name & port number) and have Avahi announce them on the network. The other major implementation of a daemon of this kind is from Apple, and it is called “Bonjour”⁵. This often gets confused, so, again: Zeroconf = standard. mDNS and DNS-SD = component standards. Avahi = A specific free software implementation. Bonjour = A specific proprietary implementation. 1) http://zeroconf.org/ http://zeroconf.org/ 2) http://www.multicastdns.org/ http://www.multicastdns.org/ 3) http://www.dns-sd.org/ http://www.dns-sd.org/ 4) http://avahi.org/ http://avahi.org/ 5) https://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/ https://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/