NOTICE

This project is un-maintained, and has been since 2013.

There are known vulnerabilities that have been disclosed, and quite possibly others that have yet to be disclosed. Refer to the issue tracker.

You are advised to NOT use this library for any new projects / products.

tinysvcmdns

tinysvcmdns is a tiny MDNS responder implementation for publishing services.

This implementation is only concerned with publishing services, without a system-wide daemon like Bonjour or Avahi. Its other goal is to be extremely small, embeddable, and have no external dependencies.

It only answers queries related to its own hostname (the A record), the service PTRs, and the "_services.dns-sd._udp.local" name, which advertises all services on a particular host.

Services consist of a single SRV and TXT record.

Decoding of MDNS packets is only done to retrieve the questions and answer RRs. The purpose for decoding answer RRs is to make sure the service PTR is not sent out if it is already included in the answer RRs.

It also only utilizes multicast packets, so no "QU" queries are accepted.

There is no name collision detection, so this means no queries are generated before publishing the services. However compliant responders will avoid using our names, since the implementation will respond to queries that match our name.

TODO

• better, more stable & complete API
• name collision detection

FILES

• mdns.c - provides data structures, parsing & encoding of MDNS packets
• mdnsd.c - implements the server socket, communication and thread
• testmdnsd.c - an example that creates an instance until terminated

LICENSE

tinysvcmdns is licensed under the 3-clause ("modified") BSD License.

Copyright (C) 2011 Darell Tan

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