[Astlinux-users] Bonjour questions

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Hello all,


Bonjour seems like a great way to advertise the presence of Asterisk and
to point users in the right direction. But what about the reverse? Could
Bonjour be used to listen for a SIP phone that advertised its presence?

A simple scenario is having phones advertise themselves through Bonjour,
listing up their management interfaces (http, https, telnet, etc). A PHP
webpage takes the Bonjour information, and presents properly formated
links to the services of the devices AstLinux can see. So, clicking a
devices link will allow access to the device.

I may be asking too much here, but what sort of functionality would be
needed on the phone and in AstLinux to allow for client/server discovery,
and possibly partial or full configuration/provisioning of a phone from an
AstLinux box, in a generic manner? Bonjour seems to be a pretty device
agnostic way of potentially accomplishing that.

Am I missing something here?



Thank you for your time.

Ben