NAME

       Net::Rendezvous::Publish - publish Rendezvous services

SYNOPSIS

        use Net::Rendezvous::Publish;
        my $publisher = Net::Rendezvous::Publish->new
          or die "couldn't make a Responder object";
        my $service = $publisher->publish(
            name => "My HTTP Server",
            type => '_http._tcp',
            port => 12345,
        );
        while (1) { $publisher->step( 0.01 ) }

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

   new
       Creates a new publisher handle

   publish( %definition )
       Returns a Net::Rendezvous::Publish::Service object.  The following keys are meaningful in
       the service definition hash.

       name
           A descriptive name for the service.

       type
           The type of service.  This is string of the form _service._protocol.

       port
           The port on which you're advertising the service.  If you're not using a port (and
           instead just using mDNS as a way of propogating other service information) it's common
           practice to use 9 (the discard service)

       domain
           The domain in which to advertise a service.  Defaults to "local."

   step( $seconds )
       Spend at most $seconds seconds handling network events and updating internal state.

TODO

       At some point I may learn enough of the mDNS protocol to write a pure-perl responder.
       That'll be nifty.

AUTHOR

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Net::Rendezous - for service browsing.

       Net::Rendezvous::Publish::Backend::* - you'll need one of these to talk to your local mDNS
       responder.