== Automatically generate ~/.distcc/hosts from avahi ==

If you've setup Avahi/Zeroconf for distcc, you can generate a hosts file with a DNS-SD query:

{{{#!highlight sh
avahi-browse _distcc._tcp -t -r | grep address | egrep -v : | cut -d [ -f 2 | cut -d ] -f 1 | paste -s -d' ' > ~/.distcc/hosts
}}}

This will exclude IPv6 addresses, which is useful since [[http://code.google.com/p/distcc/issues/detail?id=34|some versions of distcc have problems with IPv6 support]].

From [[http://www.diogogomes.com/2007/08/21/distcc-avahi/|Diogo Gomes Blog]].
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