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

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mDNS Beacon

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

Features

  • ✅ Announce multiple aliases on the local network.
  • ✅ Listening utility to discover services during development.
  • ❌ Run as Unix daemon.
  • ❌ 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

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) ...

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