Include avahi-find-hosts

[jwm]

avahi-find-hosts is a script that will fetch a list of FQDNs for hosts on the network that are advertising a particular service. It can also be instructed to return IP addresses or, if it makes sense for the protocol, URLs.

I'm using it to gather a list of all the desktops on my network that are up and running ssh, so I can log in and have them pull software updates. I'm probably going to use it to check that certain local NFS shares are available, too.

[lennart]

Looks good to me, and I will definitely add this, given that the code looks pretty high quality and this also makes a good example how to use the Avahi D-Bus APIs from Python.

But... I think the name is a little bit confusing. Any objections if I rename this to "avahi-dump-hosts" or "avahi-list-hosts" or similar?

Also, it might make sense to filter out duplicates when dumping host names, wouldn't it?

[lennart]

Hmm, also, for merging this into Avahi I'd need a man page of some kind...

[jwm]

I'm open to suggestions on the name. I switched to avahi-find-hosts because it sucked less that avahi-services; avahi-list might be good, as it can do both hosts and URLs.

Duplicate filter on hosts is a good plan, as well as the man page. I should sort those out tomorrow evening.

[jwm]

avahi-list and manpage.

[jwm]

Fixed the duplicate bug, cleaned up the options, added handling for failing to contact avahi-daemon, and put together a manpage, as requested.