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
- ✅ Announce multiple aliases on the local network.
- ✅ Listening utility to discover services during development.
- ❌ Configuration file.
- ❌ Windows support.
Install mdns-beacon
from the Python Package Index:
$ pip install mdns-beacon
$ 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 --type http --protocol tcp
⠋ Announcing services (Press CTRL+C to quit) ...
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) ...
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