No “best in show” but not too shabby for a first year.
New toy :D
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MDNS/Bonjour printer discovery script
Here’s a script I wrote whose purpose is to discover the printers that are currently being advertised by Bonjour on the network. The reason I wrote it was for a Nagios check that would in term verify that our printers were present. Writing it took me through the meanders of MDNS in Python & on Linux with multiple vlans. Let’s just say non-trivial.
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Sample output
