On 11/27/2013 12:03 PM, Michael Haberler wrote:
> I consider using zbeacon for service discovery, but more in a DHCP-style way 
> (I dont have the use case for permanently visible beacons since the 
> information is used during startup/on demand only)
>
> an application looking for services would broadcast (a) request(s) for the 
> services needed, and entities with matching services would reply with an 
> answer directed to the source IP address (i.e. non-broadcast); repeat until 
> all needed services acquired.
>
> IMV the only missing part in zbeacon to achieve this would be a directed 
> counterpart of zbeacon_publish(), with a signature like so:
>
>   void zbeacon_send (zbeacon_t *self,  char *ipaddress, byte *transmit, 
> size_t size)
>
> which would transmit a directed UDP reply once.
>
> --
>
> If there's interest in such a feature I'd add support for this in czmq and 
> issue a PR
>
> - Michael

In Zyre zbeacon is broadcasting continuously, would the nodes be 
replying continuously as well? Otherwise you would need to do some 
tracking of nodes inside zbeacon?

Rg,

Arnaud
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