Editing Avahi (software) (section)

{{Short description|Zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) implementation}}
{{Infobox software
| name                   = Avahi
| logo                   = Avahi-logo.svg
| screenshot             = Avahi.png
| caption                = Avahi Discovery GUI showing discovered services
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| author                 =
| developer              = [[Lennart Poettering]], Trent Lloyd, Sjoerd Simons
| released               =
| latest release version = 0.8
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2020|02|18}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/avahi/avahi/releases/tag/v0.8|title=Avahi 0.8, the 'Dobro Jutro' release|website=[[GitHub]] |accessdate=11 April 2020}}</ref>
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date    =
| programming language   = [[C (programming language)|C]]
| operating system       = [[Linux]], [[BSD]]
| platform               =
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| genre                  = {{ubl|[[Computer networking|Networking]]|[[Service discovery]]|[[Linux on the desktop]]}}
| license                = [[GNU Lesser General Public License|LGPLv2.1]]
| website                = {{URL|//www.avahi.org}}
}}

'''Avahi''' is a [[free software|free]] [[zero-configuration networking]] (zeroconf) implementation, including a system for [[multicast DNS]] and [[DNS-SD|DNS Service Discovery]]. It is licensed under the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] (LGPL).

Avahi is a system that enables programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a [[local network]]. For example, a user can plug a computer into a network and have Avahi automatically advertise the [[network service]]s running on its machine, facilitating user access to those services.