wxSocket on Mac - use of Hostname fails

[Hugo Jackson]

not that i'm aware of no.  perhaps you've got some dns caching going  
on that is creating problems?

On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, David Mathews wrote:

> Server is working on the mac, but trying to make a client  
> connection is not.
> With Windows, I'm passing the machine name as hostname (HPXP, etc)  
> and the connections are being made without having to use the ip  
> address.
> I can only get a client connection to work with the ip dot  
> notation, but these are not fixed, unlike the machine names.
> Does the name need to be specified differently on the Mac to be  
> able to make a client connection by name rather than by ip?
>
> David
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Hugo Jackson wrote:
>
>> wxIPV4address.Hostname() accepts either an address in either dot  
>> quad notation or a fully qualified domain name, and works equally  
>> well on the mac as the ip.
>>
>> however, on the mac you cannot bind an interface to a  
>> wxSocketServer, so you need to use wxIPV4address.AnyAddress() in  
>> order to set the address for a new instance of wxSocketServer.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2007, at 1:54 PM, David Mathews wrote:
>>
>>> I have all my network code running on the Mac, but it can't call  
>>> back when finished by using the hostname like the PC versions can.
>>> It works if I give it the current ip address, but this changes  
>>> daily.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to make a hostname (machine name) work from  
>>> the Mac?
>>> How to enable a Mac to find a machine by its network name rather  
>>> than current ip address?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
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