[AG-DEV] pyDNSServiceRegister ServiceDiscovery.py issue

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi,

In the pyDNSServiceRegister() call in ServiceDiscovery.py, it is using 
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) which returns an IP address, for 
the hostname argument. Unfortunately later version of Avahi (the Bonjour 
compatible package that comes with later linux distributions) doesn't accept 
IP addresses as valid arguments for the hostname field, it needs to be a 
hostname resolvable by either DNS or mDNS.

Just wondering if it okay to avoid the issue, by replacing 
gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) with None (i.e. NULL, as per Apple's 
recommendation to use the computer's default host name)? It then works fine 
with Avahi.

I'm also looking into why __ResolveCallback doesn't get called with Avahi, 
but __BrowseCallback has no problems, it's odd as the pyDNSServiceResolve() 
call completes successfully. I may end up just statically linking bonjour-py 
against Apple's mDNSresponder library if I don't find a solution for the 
callback


Thanks,
Doug