how to broadcast a service over the network for clients to discoverwithout any need for server IP

[Saravanan Sundaramoorthy]

how to broadcast/multicast a service over the network for clients to
discover without any need for server IP?

how to let other clients discover the service from a server, without the
client requiring the IP address of the server, similar to DHCP IP
acquiring.

is there any other easy way?

Thanks,
Saravanan Sundaramoorthy

 

[Zoran Regvart]

Hi,

how to broadcast/multicast a service over the network for clients to
discover without any need for server IP?

how to let other clients discover the service from a server, without the
client requiring the IP address of the server, similar to DHCP IP
acquiring.

is there any other easy way?

there is DNSSD (http://www.dns-sd.org/), see if something below fits your needs:
http://dnssd.rubyforge.org/dnssd/
http://github.com/lachie/zeroconf
http://drnicwilliams.com/2008/06/18/what-is-gitjour-gemjour-starjour/

zoran