Avahi (software)

Avahi

Avahi Discovery GUI showing discovered services
Developer(s)	Lennart Poettering, Trent Lloyd, Sjoerd Simons
Stable release	0.8 / February 18, 2020; 4 years ago (2020-02-18)[1]
Repository	github.com/avahi/avahi
Written in	C
Operating system	Linux, BSD
Type	Networking Service discovery Linux on the desktop
License	LGPLv2.1
Website	www.avahi.org

Avahi is a free zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) implementation, including a system for multicast DNS and DNS Service Discovery. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Avahi is a system which enables programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network. For example, a user can plug a computer into a network and have Avahi automatically advertise the network services running on its machine, facilitating user access to those services.