[Freedombox-discuss] [Freedom Box] Finding your FB box on the network

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

2010/10/13 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson <bre at beanstalks-project.net>:
> Excellent ideas here.
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Christian Brædstrup
> <linuxchristian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> I have been hacking on the Debian live system the last couple of days and
>> have something working I wanted to share. I have written a couple of Perl
>> script to help computers on the LAN find the FB box. One is a primitive
>> broadcast server running on the box and the other is a client you start on
>> your local machine that grabs the packages from the server and opens Firefox
>> to point at the box.
>
> Have you looked at the zeroconf stuff? Both Apple and MS have done work in
> this space - I think the Apple stuff is open source and not too horrible,
> based on open protocols:
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_configuration_networking
>

Installing avahi-daemon should assign a DNS name to the box
automatically of the form hostname.local which would be resolvable by
other computers running Avahi/Bonjour.

Abhishek