# mDNS Beacon


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Multicast DNS (mDNS) Beacon to announce multiple CNAME aliases across your local network. Under development. Use by your own risk❗


* GitHub repo: <https://github.com/fedejaure/mdns-beacon.git>
* Documentation: <https://mdns-beacon.readthedocs.io>
* Free software: MIT


## Features

* ✅ Announce multiple aliases on the local network.
* ✅ Listening utility to discover services during development.
* ❌ Run as Unix daemon.
* ❌ Configuration file.
* ❌ Windows support.

## Quickstart

Install `mdns-beacon` from the [Python Package Index][pypi]:

```
$ pip install mdns-beacon
```

#### Usage

```
$ mdns-beacon --help
Usage: mdns-beacon [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Simple multicast DNS (mDNS) command line interface utility.

Options:
  --version  Show the version and exit.
  --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  blink   Announce aliases on the local network.
  listen  Listen for services on the local network.
```

Announce an example service:

```
$ mdns-beacon blink example --alias sub1.example --address 127.0.0.1

```

Listen to a specific service type:

```
$ mdns-beacon listen --service _http._tcp.local.
                                          🚨📡 mDNS Beacon Listener 📡🚨                                          
┏━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━┓
┃ #  ┃ Type               ┃ Name                             ┃ Address IPv4  ┃ Port  ┃ Server              ┃ TTL ┃
┡━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━┩
│ 0  │ _http._tcp.local.  │ example._http._tcp.local.        │ 127.0.0.1     │ 80    │ example.local.      │ 120 │
│ 1  │ _http._tcp.local.  │ sub1.example._http._tcp.local.   │ 127.0.0.1     │ 80    │ sub1.example.local. │ 120 │
└────┴────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴───────┴─────────────────────┴─────┘
Listen for services (Press CTRL+C to quit) ...
```

## Credits

This package was created with [Cookiecutter][cookiecutter] and the [fedejaure/cookiecutter-modern-pypackage][cookiecutter-modern-pypackage] project template.

[cookiecutter]: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter
[cookiecutter-modern-pypackage]: https://github.com/fedejaure/cookiecutter-modern-pypackage
[pypi]: https://pypi.org/