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24  <manpage name="avahi-publish-service" section="1" desc="Register an mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name or address mapping using the Avahi daemon">
25
26	<synopsis>
27      <cmd>avahi-publish -s [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>name</arg> <arg>service-type</arg> <arg>port</arg> [<arg>TXT data</arg> ...]</cmd>
28      <cmd>avahi-publish-service [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>name</arg> <arg>service-type</arg> <arg>port</arg> [<arg>TXT data</arg> ...]</cmd>
29      <cmd>avahi-publish -a [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>host name</arg> <arg>address</arg></cmd>
30      <cmd>avahi-publish-address [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>host name</arg> <arg>address</arg></cmd>
31	</synopsis>
32
33    <description>
34      <p>Register an mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name/address mapping using the Avahi daemon.</p>
35	</description>
36
37	<options>
38
39      <p>When calling in service registration mode, specify a DNS-SD
40      service name (e.g. "Lennart's Files"), a service type
41      (e.g. _http._tcp) and an IP port number for the service,
42      optionally followed by any number of TXT record strings on the
43      command line. When calling in address/host name registration
44      mode specify a fully qualified host name and an address (IPv4 or
45      IPv6).</p>
46
47	  <option>
48        <p><opt>-s | --service</opt></p>
49        <optdesc><p>Register a service. avahi-publish-service is equivalent to avahi-publish -s.</p></optdesc>
50      </option>
51
52	  <option>
53        <p><opt>-a | --address</opt></p>
54        <optdesc><p>Register an address/host name mapping. avahi-publish-address is equivalent to avahi-publish -a.</p></optdesc>
55      </option>
56
57      <option>
58        <p><opt>-v | --verbose</opt></p>
59        <optdesc><p>Enable verbose mode.</p></optdesc>
60      </option>
61
62      <option>
63		<p><opt>-H | --host=</opt> <arg>HOSTNAME</arg></p>
64		<optdesc><p>Specify a host name for this service, in case it
65		doesn't reside on the local host. This host name needs to be
66		fully qualified and resolvable using mDNS or unicast
67		DNS.</p></optdesc>
68	  </option>
69
70	  <option>
71		<p><opt>-d | --domain=</opt> <arg>DOMAIN</arg></p>
72        <optdesc><p>Publish the service in the specified domain. If
73        omitted the Avahi daemon will publish it in its default domain
74        (usually .local).</p></optdesc>
75	  </option>
76
77      <option>
78        <p><opt>--subtype=</opt> <arg>SUBTYPE</arg></p>
79        <optdesc><p>Register the service with an additional subtype in
80        addition to the main type. DNS-SD subtypes  have the form
81        _anon._sub._ftp._tcp, where _anon is the identifier of the
82        subtype and _ftp._tcp is the main type. You may pass this
83        option multiple times to register the service with multiple
84        subtypes.</p></optdesc>
85      </option>
86
87	  <option>
88		<p><opt>-f | --no-fail</opt></p>
89		<optdesc><p>Don't fail if the daemon is not found running. Instead, wait until it appears. If it disconnects, try to reconnect.</p></optdesc>
90	  </option>
91
92	  <option>
93		<p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
94		<optdesc><p>Show help</p></optdesc>
95	  </option>
96
97	  <option>
98		<p><opt>-V | --version</opt></p>
99		<optdesc><p>Show version information.</p></optdesc>
100	  </option>
101
102	</options>
103
104	<section name="Authors">
105	  <p>The Avahi Developers &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;; Avahi is
106	  available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
107	</section>
108
109	<section name="See also">
110	  <p>
111        <manref name="avahi-resolve" section="1"/>, <manref
112        name="avahi-browse" section="1"/>, <manref
113        name="avahi-daemon" section="8"/>
114	  </p>
115	</section>
116
117	<section name="Comments">
118	  <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"
119		  href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by Oliver Kurth.</p>
120	</section>
121
122  </manpage>
123