Hi there; I just wanted all you Avahi folks to know about our project Mandos' slightly unusual use of Avahi.
The goal of the Mandos system is to enable servers to have an encrypted root file system and still be able to reboot automatically without anyone having to be there and type in a password. What happens is that we run an Avahi service browser at boot time in the initial RAM disk environment (initrd), before even networking is configured, to find a server on the local network, using IPv6 link-local addresses. (The client the connects to the server, which responds with an encrypted password necessary to unlock the client's root file system, but this is no longer Avahi-related.) Since this is run before any Avahi daemon is run, we use Avahi Core. (The server is written in Python, and uses the normal Avahi libraries to annouce a service, albeit using the IPv6 link-local address.) Oh yes, the project's home page: http://www.fukt.bsnet.se/mandos /Teddy, Mandos Maintainer Team _______________________________________________ avahi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
