solution for a quick/robust/secure broadcast issue

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 14:05 +1030, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 13 October 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > Isn't that pretty much what Avahi does? Why reinvent the wheel?
> 
> Does Avahi even do anything on a system which has already been set up by
> DCHP?

My understanding of this is pretty vague, but I believe it does allow
things like service discovery (i.e. using a service name rather than a
host name).

poc