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DNS Service Discovery, or Zeroconf, is a technology for automatically locating available services on a network. Zeroconf allows users to access network resources without having to provide explicit addresses or configure their applications manually.

DNS Service Discovery is already used in numerous places throughout GNOME, and further support will be added in the future. For example, Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, uses DNS Service Discovery to locate various file servers on the local network. Ekiga, the videoconferencing and telephony application in GNOME, can locate and publish the user's presence and locate other users on a local network using DNS Service Discovery.

Full DNS Service Discovery support is provided by the Avahi library. For more information on Avahi, visit the Avahi web site.