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.freenode.org Please report bugs to the freedesktop.org bugzilla: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Avahi's SVN repository is freely accessible: svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/avahi/trunk avahi http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=avahi Avahi has the following requirements: - glib2 - expat - libdaemon (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/) - Linux 2.4 or 2.6 - DBUS 0.3x (optional, if you disable this, the daemon is not accessible over IPC to other applications!) - gtk2 + glade (optional, needed for avahi-discover-standalone) - doxygen (optional, needed for he API documentaton) - Python 2.4, pygtk2 (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/