avahi/avahi
Avahi - Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
67/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4299
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1543 stars · 374 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Avahi is a free LGPL implementation of mDNS/DNS-SD (Zeroconf) service discovery for Linux, compatible with Apple Bonjour. It provides a daemon plus C APIs (avahi-core, avahi-client, D-Bus) for browsing and publishing network services on local networks.
Use cases
- discover printers on the local network
- publish a service so other devices can find it via Bonjour
- resolve .local hostnames with mDNS
- add Zeroconf service discovery to a Linux application
- find file shares or chat peers on a LAN
- embed mDNS/DNS-SD into an embedded appliance
When to choose
- you need Bonjour-compatible Zeroconf on Linux or BSD
- you want a mature, widely packaged mDNS daemon with D-Bus APIs
- you are building embedded devices that advertise services on a LAN
When to avoid
- you need Windows support, which is not ported
- you need wide-area service discovery rather than local-link mDNS
- you want a pure userspace library without a system daemon
Facets
service · maturity stable
networking service-discovery sdk networking developer-tools operating-systems bsd c cross-platform mdns dns-sd zeroconf bonjour dbus local-network linux
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/avahi/avahi · fetched 2026-08-28 · 93707ef5049d
- homepage: https://www.avahi.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4f379b3b5df0
- site_page: https://avahi.org/doxygen/html · fetched 2026-08-29 · dcd0426c3ccf
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| avahi/avahi | main | 67 |
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