More intelligent Bonjour question ;)

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 14/4/07 2:39 AM, "Bernet, Eytan" <eytan_bernet at mcgraw-hill.com> wrote:

Hi Eytan,

> Okay, so I feel like a fool over the last one...
> 
> I had modified both BonjourProtocolName and BonjourServiceName, so I did not
> get any unique entries - which actually DOES bring up a question....
> 
> How do I handle this?
> What if two computers are names the same? (if you do not use
> "BonjourServiceName" then it uses the computer's name, which may also not be
> unique).

Actually even if not to think about Bonjour:

    * you have network of N computers
    * and 2 computers have the same name

So HOW you can differ them???  Trying connect from third computer...


> If there is an answer for this, given a list of Bonjour Servers, how do I
> identify "me", specifically, can I get an IP address from a Bonjour address
> before connecting to the server?

IP we get on low level. You cannot get it on ADK level

> What I want to do is to default to connect to myself if more than one server
> was found, or to try and connect to the most recently connected server based
> on its IP.

I have not catch this...

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Ruslan Zasukhin
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