Network Programming with Perl

Sample Multicast Applications

We'll look at two example multicast applications. One is a simple time-of-day server, which intermittently broadcasts the current time to whoever is interested. The other is a reworking of Chapter 19's chat system.

Time-of-Day Multicasting Server

The first example application is a server that intermittently transmits its hostname and the time of day to a predetermined port and multicast address. Client applications that wish to receive these time-of-day messages join the group and echo what they receive to standard output. You might use something like this to monitor the status of your organization's servers; if a server stops sending status messages, it might be an early warning that it had gone offline.

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