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26  <manpage name="avahi-publish-service" section="1" desc="Register an mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name or address mapping using the Avahi daemon">
27
28	<synopsis>
29      <cmd>avahi-publish -s [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>name</arg> <arg>service-type</arg> <arg>port</arg> [<arg>TXT data</arg> ...]</cmd>
30      <cmd>avahi-publish-service [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>name</arg> <arg>service-type</arg> <arg>port</arg> [<arg>TXT data</arg> ...]</cmd>
31      <cmd>avahi-publish -a [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>host name</arg> <arg>address</arg></cmd>
32      <cmd>avahi-publish-address [<arg>options</arg>] <arg>host name</arg> <arg>address</arg></cmd>
33	</synopsis>
34	
35    <description>
36      <p>Register an mDNS/DNS-SD service or host name/address mapping using the Avahi daemon.</p>
37	</description>
38	
39	<options>
40
41      <p>When calling in service registration mode, specify a DNS-SD
42      service name (e.g. "Lennart's Files"), a service type
43      (e.g. _http._tcp) and an IP port number for the service,
44      optionally followed by any number of TXT record strings on the
45      command line. When calling in address/host name registration
46      mode specify a fully qualified host name and an address (IPv4 or
47      IPv6).</p>
48	  
49	  <option>
50        <p><opt>-s | --service</opt></p>
51        <optdesc><p>Register a service. avahi-publish-service is equivalent to avahi-publish -s.</p></optdesc>
52      </option>
53
54	  <option>
55        <p><opt>-a | --address</opt></p>
56        <optdesc><p>Register an address/host name mapping. avahi-publish-address is equivalent to avahi-publish -a.</p></optdesc>
57      </option>
58
59      <option>
60        <p><opt>-v | --verbose</opt></p>
61        <optdesc><p>Enable verbose mode.</p></optdesc>
62      </option>
63
64      <option>
65		<p><opt>-H | --host=</opt> <arg>HOSTNAME</arg></p>
66		<optdesc><p>Specify a host name for this service, in case it
67		doesn't reside on the local host. This host name needs to be
68		fully qualified and resolvable using mDNS or unicast
69		DNS.</p></optdesc>
70	  </option>
71
72	  <option>
73		<p><opt>-d | --domain=</opt> <arg>DOMAIN</arg></p>
74        <optdesc><p>Publish the service in the specified domain. If
75        omitted the Avahi daemon will publish it in its default domain
76        (usually .local).</p></optdesc>
77	  </option>
78
79      <option>
80        <p><opt>--subtype=</opt> <arg>SUBTYPE</arg></p>
81        <optdesc><p>Register the service with an additional subtype in
82        addition to the main type. DNS-SD subtypes  have the form
83        _anon._sub._ftp._tcp, where _anon is the identifier of the
84        subtype and _ftp._tcp is the main type. You may pass this
85        option multiple times to register the service with multiple
86        subtypes.</p></optdesc>
87      </option>
88
89	  <option>
90		<p><opt>-f | --no-fail</opt></p>
91		<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>
92	  </option>
93
94	  <option>
95		<p><opt>-h | --help</opt></p>
96		<optdesc><p>Show help</p></optdesc>
97	  </option>
98
99	  <option>
100		<p><opt>-V | --version</opt></p>
101		<optdesc><p>Show version information.</p></optdesc>
102	  </option>
103
104	</options>
105	
106	<section name="Authors">
107	  <p>The Avahi Developers &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;; Avahi is
108	  available from <url href="@PACKAGE_URL@"/></p>
109	</section>
110	
111	<section name="See also">
112	  <p>
113        <manref name="avahi-resolve" section="1"/>, <manref
114        name="avahi-browse" section="1"/>, <manref
115        name="avahi-daemon" section="8"/>
116	  </p>
117	</section>
118	
119	<section name="Comments">
120	  <p>This man page was written using <manref name="xml2man" section="1"
121		  href="http://masqmail.cx/xml2man/"/> by Oliver Kurth.</p>
122	</section>
123	
124  </manpage>
125