https://github.com/Bouke/NetService

Swift NetService (Bonjour / Zeroconf / mDNS) implementation for Linux
https://github.com/Bouke/NetService

bonjour mdns rfc-6762 swift zeroconf

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Swift NetService (Bonjour / Zeroconf / mDNS) implementation for Linux

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Bouke/NetService
• Owner: Bouke
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-09-19T19:00:34.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-30T23:13:31.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-14T18:32:56.602Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bonjour, mdns, rfc-6762, swift, zeroconf
• Language: Swift
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• Size: 221 KB
• Stars: 118
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 21
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Swift NetService (Bonjour / Zeroconf / mDNS) implementation for Linux

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This module allows you to publish your own Bonjour service on the local network. On macOS NetService is included with Cocoa, however on Linux there's no such thing in the standard library.

Since version 0.5 this library uses dns_sd as the responder, instead of implementing mDNS itself. On macOS this means that it uses the system-wide daemon, and on Linux one should install `libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev` to run the system-wide daemon.

## Usage

See also [NetService-Example](https://github.com/Bouke/NetService-Example). Note that like Apple's NetService, you need to run a RunLoop in order for the callbacks to happen.

There's also a command line tool included called `dns-sd`, with a subset of the functionality provided by Apple's tool with the same name. You can use this tool to verify the implementation and debug your network when advertisements are not working. Run `swift run dns-sd --help` for usage instructions.

### Publish a NetService

This code will publish a new NetService advertising port 8000. Note that you need to setup a listening socket on port 8000 yourself.

```swift

import Foundation

import NetService

let service = NetService(domain: "local.", type: "_hap._tcp.", name: "Zithoek", port: 8000)

service.delegate = ...

service.publish()

withExtendedLifetime((service, delegate)) {

    RunLoop.main.run()

}

```

### Browsing for NetServices

This code will start a search for the given service type.

```swift

let browser = NetServiceBrowser()

browser.delegate = ...

browser.searchForServices(ofType: "_airplay._tcp.", inDomain: "local.")

withExtendedLifetime((browser, delegate)) {

    RunLoop.main.run()

}

```

## Credits

This library was written by [Bouke Haarsma](https://boukehaarsma.nl).