Samples with JmDNS

Question

I've been able to get the samples that come with JmDNS to compile and run, however I can't get any of the classes to discover my services.

I'm running a Windows environment with multiple PC's running VNC, SSH & Apache and I've been trying to get JmDNS to discover at least one of these...

What I ideally want is to be able to detect all running VNC servers on my network. Is there some sort of client and server pairing where I can only discover a service if I've registered it using JmDNS?

Any help getting some results out of the samples will be appreciated, the documentation isn't much help.

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import javax.jmdns.JmDNS;
import javax.jmdns.ServiceEvent;
import javax.jmdns.ServiceListener;

/**
 * Sample Code for Service Discovery using JmDNS and a ServiceListener.
 * <p>
 * Run the main method of this class. It listens for HTTP services and lists all changes on System.out.
 *
 * @author Werner Randelshofer
 */
public class DiscoverServices {

    static class SampleListener implements ServiceListener {
        @Override
        public void serviceAdded(ServiceEvent event) {
            System.out.println("Service added   : " + event.getName() + "." + event.getType());
        }

        @Override
        public void serviceRemoved(ServiceEvent event) {
            System.out.println("Service removed : " + event.getName() + "." + event.getType());
        }

        @Override
        public void serviceResolved(ServiceEvent event) {
            System.out.println("Service resolved: " + event.getInfo());
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param args
     *            the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {

            // Activate these lines to see log messages of JmDNS
            boolean log = false;
            if (log) {
                Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(JmDNS.class.getName());
                ConsoleHandler handler = new ConsoleHandler();
                logger.addHandler(handler);
                logger.setLevel(Level.FINER);
                handler.setLevel(Level.FINER);
            }

            final JmDNS jmdns = JmDNS.create();
            String type = "_http._tcp.local.";
            if(args.length > 0) {
                type = args[0];
            }
            jmdns.addServiceListener(type, new SampleListener());

            System.out.println("Press q and Enter, to quit");
            int b;
            while ((b = System.in.read()) != -1 && (char) b != 'q') {
                /* Stub */
            }
            jmdns.close();
            System.out.println("Done");
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

To discover a specific type of service, you need to know the correct service type name, check out DNS SRV (RFC 2782) Service Types:

String bonjourServiceType = "_http._tcp.local.";
bonjourService = JmDNS.create();
bonjourService.addServiceListener(bonjourServiceType, bonjourServiceListener);
ServiceInfo[] serviceInfos = bonjourService.list(bonjourServiceType);
for (ServiceInfo info : serviceInfos) {
  System.out.println("## resolve service " + info.getName()  + " : " + info.getURL());
}
bonjourService.close();

For VNC, use _rfb._tcp.local.
For SSH, use _ssh._tcp.local.
For Apache, use _http._tcp.local.