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Article #608Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant?
From: Mark Anacker
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00
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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...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe659,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gidfe659,public X-Google-Thread: f5694,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gidf5694,public X-Google-Thread: 110d1c,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gid110d1c,public X-Google-Thread: fa939,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gidfa939,public X-Google-Thread: 10f035,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gid10f035,public X-Google-Thread: f8bf7,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gidf8bf7,public X-Google-Thread: fc8d0,1ae250b5d94ff60f X-Google-Attributes: gidfc8d0,public From: marka@halcyon.com (Mark Anacker) Subject: Re: Is LanWorkPlace Winsock 1.1 compliant? Date: 1995/08/01 Message-ID: <3vma61$o18@data.interserv.net> X-Deja-AN: 107292544 references: <3rkc8n$b0u@mark.ucdavis.edu> <3rng03$bp6@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> <3v5997$18ou@hearst.cac.psu.edu> <3v74l9$dmf@i-2000.com> <3v8rog$f47@data.interserv.net> <3vlbe8$o89@r25.cae.ge02.honeywell.de> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: InterServ News Service mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.netware.misc,comp.os.netware.connectivity,Alt.winsock,alt.winsock.programming,alt.winsock.trumpet,bit.listserv.novell,comp.sys.novell,com