While you can solve problem of discovery by introducing your own broker, you will still have problems such as single POF etc. This is because ZMQ was designed f

While you can solve problem of discovery by introducing your own broker, you will still have problems such as single POF etc. This is because ZMQ was designed for different purpose and you are trying to forcefully fit it to unrelated purpose. There are many solutions to what you want to accomplish and each one has its fans. I personally like smartstack because it combines two very mature and battle tested technologies: Zookeeper and haproxy.