On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 13:26 -0400, bruce wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> For a test network, internal 192.168..x subnet, I've got some boxes
> that are connected to a dhcp server that I have no control of.
> 
> I'm looking to test/play with some services on the different boxes,
> but would like to have other boxes be able to reference the boxes
> running the services. My issue, the box running service X could have
> ip1 which could then change to ip2 the next day..
> 
> I'm considering some sort of cheap/fast broadcast process where the
> machines running the given services, broadcast out to the network "i'm
> boxA running service Foo on ipXX" and the listening machine would then
> decouple the message, and update the resolve.conf file, or whatever
> the required file is to then be able to use the required name/ip for
> the service..
> 
> Thoughts/comments??
> 
> Would nc be good for this, would there be a better solution?
> 
> Should I create a limited user on each box, and have a process
> attached to the user listen, and process the messages?
> 
> Thanks guys..

Isn't that pretty much what Avahi does? Why reinvent the wheel?

poc

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