Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?

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From: Drew Radtke
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00

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marka@halcyon.com (Mark Anacker) writes:
>In article <3vlbe8$o89@r25.cae.ge02.honeywell.de>, epp@ge02.honeywell.de 
>says...
>>In article <3v8rog$f47@data.interserv.net>, marka@halcyon.com says...
>>>There seems to be a problem with configuring a host name for the local PC -
>>>I can't find a way to do it.  This causes problems with programs that need to
>	:
>>There are two ways to do it.  Using a DNS server is the normal one.
>>The other solution is to enter your own PC's name into the local HOSTS file.
>
>But how do you tell the stack what it's own name is?  It doesn't seem to do
>a reverse lookup by address on either the DNS or the local hosts table, so
>it can't find it's own local name.  Thus gethostname() fails, and there's
>no way for an application to find out what it's IP address is...

Well; you could tell all your software that your PCs IP number is
127.0.0.1 ! I've done that to get around very stupid software
problems.

Good luck!
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Drew Radtke - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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From: A.L.Radtke@bradford.ac.uk (Drew Radtke)
Subject: Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?
Date: 1995/08/02
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references: <3v8rog$f47@data.interserv.net> <3vlbe8$o89@r25.cae.ge02.honeywell.de> <3vma61$o18@data.interserv.net>
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