That's wonderful, thank you. But, what about across servers? Wouldn't I need to 
rely on TCP? If so, can they also do this?

Thanks,
Lee

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On 17 Feb 2013, at 07:48, Whitney Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I'm guessing the subs cannot connect to many?
> 
> Guess again :) Here's a python example:
> 
> # start sub.py
> import zmq
> c = zmq.Context()
> s = c.socket(zmq.SUB)
> s.setsockopt(zmq.SUBSCRIBE, '')
> s.connect('ipc://ep1')
> s.connect('ipc://ep2')
> 
> while True:
>     m = s.recv()
>     print m
>     print ''
> # end sub.py
> 
> # start pub.py
> import time
> import zmq
> 
> c = zmq.Context()
> s = c.socket(zmq.PUB)
> s.bind('ipc://ep1')
> s.bind('ipc://ep2')
> 
> while True:
>     print 'hi'
>     s.send('hi')
>     time.sleep(1)
> # end pub.py
> 
> sub.py will print two 'hi's every second because it received one on ipc://ep1 
> and another on ipc://ep2.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Lee Sylvester <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply, Witney, but I need it the other way. I need a sub 
>> socket to be connected to multiple pub endpoints... This is because every 
>> instance will have a single publisher, telling all who is interested about 
>> events, but that same service will want to list to an arbitrary number of 
>> other services for their events. Essentially, I'd be forming a type of mesh, 
>> where each service has  two endpoint (pub and sub) and all connect to all. I 
>> knew pub could connect to many, as it binds, but I'm guessing the subs 
>> cannot connect to many?
>> 
>> Thanks loads,
>> Lee
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 17 Feb 2013, at 05:18, Whitney Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> > Is it possible for a sub socket to bind to multiple pub sockets?
>>> 
>>> Yes. You can call bind and/or connect on a socket as many times at you like.
>>> 
>>> > If so, where is there an example of this?
>>> 
>>> Here's an example from the guide where a pub socket is bound to multiple 
>>> endpoints:
>>> 
>>> http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all#Getting-the-Message-Out
>>> 
>>> If you connect a sub socket to multiple endpoints then it gets a message 
>>> whenever any of the publishers to which it's connected send.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Lee Sylvester <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> 
>>>> So, I want to do a many to many pubsub.  I already have a discovery 
>>>> mechanism and logging, but what I need is for a service to bind to a pub 
>>>> socket and subscribe to a set list of instances of itself on the server 
>>>> and other servers. The Zyre framework, although awesome, seems a little 
>>>> large for my needs as I already have a number of the features it supplies 
>>>> built in to my framework. Is it possible for a sub socket to bind to 
>>>> multiple pub sockets?  If so, where is there an example of this? Can I 
>>>> also add a pub socket to listen to when all is already running?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Lee
>>>> 
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