On 19/03/12 22:11, Dave Taht wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Robert Bradley
> <robert.bradley1@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 19/03/12 19:41, Robert Bradley wrote:
>>> Avahi had
>>> problems with publishing records in the past, but as far as I can tell
>>> those have been resolved.
>>>
>> I take that back - patches were apparently written for this but never made
>> public, as far as I can see.
> links? emails? This has got to get fixed in the long run... nagging
> the developers to publish and polish is generally useful.
>

The email mentioning this is at 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2008-December/001523.html, 
by Federico Lucifredi (//flucifredi@acm.org).  That was in December 
2008.  There was an email in July 2011 asking about this 
(http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/2011-June/002037.html) 
which did not get anywhere.  I have emailed Federico tonight about his 
patches to Avahi, so maybe(!) these can finally be published and integrated.

I should mention at this point (although it's not ideal) that various 
workarounds exist.  For example, there is a Ruby D-Bus daemon to do 
wide-area updates at <https://github.com/Roguelazer/wamupd/>, and 
Federico Lucifredi has a Perl script at 
<http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/mybook/dns-update.html> for 
one-off registration.  If one of these (or a similar script) were 
installed by default in Linux distributions, that might be enough for 
desktop machines.

-- 
Robert Bradley