Example (1)

The following program searches machines that provide the afpovertcp service (AppleTalk Filing Protocol over TCP) the file sharing service of Mac OS X.


#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::Rendezvous;

my $ressource = new Net::Rendezvous 'afpovertcp';
$ressource->discover;

for my $entry ($ressource->entries) {
    printf "%s (%s:%s) %s %s\n", $entry->name, $entry->address,
        $entry->port, $entry->fqdn
}

It produces the following output:


Jupiter (192.168.1.2:548) Jupiter._afpovertcp._tcp.local
Luke (192.168.1.11:548) Luke._afpovertcp._tcp.local
Eole (192.168.1.16:548) Eole._afpovertcp._tcp.local

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Example (1)