This commit includes a small prestudy, done over a period of two weeks,
to gather information about common txt records used by hosts. The most
well-documented is the Apple Printing Spec, which among other things
defines adminurl. A proposed version 1 of the Infix txt record spec is
included in the document. I'm recommending alternative 2:
"vv=1" "vendor=Qemu" "product=VM" "ty=x86-64" "vn=KernelKit" "on=Infix" "ov=v24.03.0"
Including this information would enable quickly scanning a network to
see if the latest version of the software has been deployed. Please
note, I've not included the U-Boot firmware version in this proposal,
but it could be included as "vs=2023.10-kkit3", or similar.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
Converting to gunicorn, which is the recommended production server for
Flask apps, means app main() function is no longer called at startup, so
we have to factor out the mDNS CNAME functionality for infix.local and
network.local to a separate app.
We take this opportunity to collapse the structure, move non-class
methods to __init.py__, and rename the AvahiAlias class. A prototype
for replacing the overhead of mdns-alias with a C daemon is in its
early stages.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
This change also requires another restructure for netbrowse itself, hence
the relocation of files in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
- Advertises the build-time $hostname.local as a CNAME to the A and
AAAA records already advertised by Avahi
- Advertises a special network.local CNAME and provides a fastcgi
service on unix:/tmp/netbrowse.sock for browsing mDNS services
This commit also activates netbrowse by default with nginx listeing
to port 80 on IPv4 and IPv6 /browse by default but also / if called
with server name network.local.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
