Re: [ros-users] Finding ROS masters on a local network

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Víctor López
> <victor.lopez@pal-robotics.com> wrote:

>> Is there any way to find computers running roscore on a local network so
>> that I can define my ROS_MASTER_URI to point at them?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ken Conley <kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> You may want to take a look at Jon Fink's multimaster implementation:
>
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/Repositories#multimaster-ros-pkg
>
> It includes a pybonjour client for locating other masters.

I like the zeroconf approach.

Has any thought been given to registering something like "rosmaster"
as an RFC 2782 Service Type?

http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html
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 joq