Zeroconf APIs

There does not appear to be any way to detect zeroconf-enabled Perforce servers with P4API.

At this time, P4API does not implement zeroconf detection of Perforce servers. However, that functionality is available through third-party packages and APIs.

The following is a list of such packages or APIs for various languages:

C:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/networking/Reference/DNSService

Java:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Reference/DNSServiceDiscov

Python:

http://o2s.csail.mit.edu/download/pybonjour/

Perl:

http://search.cpan.org/~chlige/Net-Bonjour-0.96/lib/Net/Bonjour.pm

Cocoa/Carbon:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/NSNetServiceProgGuide/Introduction.html

Ruby:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/dnssd/

Linux C:

http://avahi.org/

Service Discovery Homepage: 

http://www.dns-sd.org/

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