mdns-beacon 1.0.0

Multicast DNS (mDNS) Beacon to announce multiple CNAME aliases across your local network.

mDNS Beacon

Multicast DNS (mDNS) Beacon to announce multiple CNAME aliases across your local network. Under development. Use by your own risk❗

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/fedejaure/mdns-beacon.git
• Documentation: https://mdns-beacon.readthedocs.io
• Free software: MIT

Features

• ✅ Announce multiple aliases on the local network.
• ✅ Listening utility to discover services during development.
• ❌ Configuration file.
• ❌ Windows support.

Quickstart

Install mdns-beacon from the Python Package Index:

$ pip install mdns-beacon

Usage

$ mdns-beacon --help
Usage: mdns-beacon [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Simple multicast DNS (mDNS) command line interface utility.

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  blink   Announce aliases on the local network.
  listen  Listen for services on the local network.

Announce an example service:

$ mdns-beacon blink example --alias sub1.example --address 127.0.0.1 --type http --protocol tcp
⠋ Announcing services (Press CTRL+C to quit) ...

Listen to a specific service type:

$ mdns-beacon listen --service _http._tcp.local.

                                       🚨📡 mDNS Beacon Listener 📡🚨
┏━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓
┃ # ┃ Type              ┃ Name                           ┃ Address IPv4 ┃ Port ┃ Server              ┃ TTL ┃
┡━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━┩
│ 0 │ _http._tcp.local. │ example._http._tcp.local.      │ 127.0.0.1    │ 80   │ example.local.      │ 120 │
│ 1 │ _http._tcp.local. │ sub1.example._http._tcp.local. │ 127.0.0.1    │ 80   │ sub1.example.local. │ 120 │
└───┴───────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┴──────────────┴──────┴─────────────────────┴─────┘

⠧ Listen for services (Press CTRL+C to quit) ...

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the fedejaure/cookiecutter-modern-pypackage project template.