Avahi browsing, publishing and discovery utilities Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to. This package contains several utilities that allow you to interact with the Avahi daemon, including publish, browsing and discovering services.