Article View: borland.public.cppbuilder.internet.socket
Article #3899Re: Searching for potential servers
From: Hans Galema
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:55
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:55
20 lines
1905 bytes
1905 bytes
Andrue Cope [TeamB] wrote: > I already have code in place to set up client/server links across our > network and it works well. Unfortunately I now need to be able search > for available servers so that I can get the user to pick one from a > list. If I understand correct you mean your serverapp's equipped with a TServerSocket ? > My problem is that I have several hundred potential addresses to > search. I can't go trying to establish a TClientSocket connection to > every possible address because that would take hours. Well a little bit less I think. But anyhow. You could provide every server with a UDP server. Then add an UDP client to the app(s) that "search for available servers". The UDP client does a broadcast upon which every UDP server that is "in the air" sends its ip. Hans.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<428a0694@newsgroups.borland.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!news-peer-test!btnet!newsfeed.bt.es!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mailReferences:
<4289f9bf$1@newsgroups.borland.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 11508e,122cee9b7cf53719 X-Google-Attributes: gid11508e,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:55:23 +0200 From: Hans Galema <notused@notused.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.internet.socket Subject: Re: Searching for potential servers References: <4289f9bf$1@newsgroups.borland.com> In-Reply-To: <4289f9bf$1@newsgroups.borland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.125.201.248 Message-ID: <428a0694@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1116341908 129.125.201.248 (17 May 2005 07:58:28 -0700) Lines: 20 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!news-peer-test!btnet!newsfeed.bt.es!caladan.landsraad.net!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail