How to make a server discoverable to LAN clients

Question

I am working on a multiplayer game in python that uses the socket library for its networking. The game will support play over LAN. One player will set up the server and othe

Answer 1

You could try a UDP broadcast. You can e.g. send a broadcast from the client. The server should then broadcast a response with its address so the client can use a regular connection.

See here for some example code: http://wiki.python.org/moin/UdpCommunication