class Socket;
+/** @class EncodeServerFinder
+ * @brief Locater of encoding servers.
+ *
+ * This class finds active (i.e. responding) encode servers. Depending on
+ * configuration it finds servers by:
+ *
+ * 1. broadcasting a request to the local subnet and
+ * 2. checking to see if any of the configured server hosts are up.
+ */
class EncodeServerFinder : public Signaller, public ExceptionStore
{
public: