Advertising & Discovering Network Services¶
Introduction¶
The discovery module implements a UDP beacon in a daemon thread to advertise
a directory of name-to-address mappings. The names are added to the directory
via the advertise() function, and discovered via discover().
A list of all currently-advertised names can be obtained by calling
discover_all().
When a name is advertised, if no address is supplied, one is generated by combining the first of the host’s IP addresses with a port randomly selected from the list of valid dynamic ports [0xC000 - 0xFFFF]. While the selected port is removed from the list for the purposes of the networkzero package, there’s a slim chance that it might be in use by some other process.