HostName(0)

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siread

(Posted 2009) [#1]

Print HostName(0) returns nothing on my Mac (10.4). Works fine on Windows. Any ideas?

Arowx

(Posted 2009) [#2]

Ditto here Mac (10.5.8) fine on Windows?

Brucey

(Posted 2009) [#3]

Probably because 0.0.0.0 is not a valid address on Mac ?

SebHoll

(Posted 2009) [#4]

Does this work?

Print HostName( HostIp("localhost") )

Arowx

(Posted 2009) [#5]

That just prints localhost ;o)

xlsior

(Posted 2009) [#6]

Does this work?

Print hostname(hostip("127.0.0.1"))

SebHoll

(Posted 2009) [#7]

That just prints localhost ;o)

Strage - it doesn't on Windows... It prints the computer name (which I assume is what you are after). Hmmmm...

Brucey

(Posted 2009) [#8]

Strage [sic] - it doesn't on Windows

Perhaps because Windows doesn't name localhost by default? I dunno.

xlsior

(Posted 2009) [#9]

Perhaps because Windows doesn't name localhost by default? I dunno.

It does name localhost, but it's done through an alias in the hostfile for 127.0.0.1... I guess it simply re-directs 'localhost' to the local machine at a DNS level, but it doesn't inherently considers its name to be localhost.

Brucey

(Posted 2009) [#10]

What about this?

SuperStrict

Framework BRL.StandardIO

Extern
	Function gethostname:Int(buf:Byte Ptr, length:Int)
End Extern

Local buf:Byte[100]

If Not gethostname(buf, buf.length) Then
	Print String.FromCString(buf)
End If

Arowx

(Posted 2009) [#11]

Well that snippet does not work on windows but on my Mac it returns

MacMini.local

? If Not ?

Brucey

(Posted 2009) [#12]

Well that snippet does not work on windows

Well, no. It wasn't intended to :-p

Arowx

(Posted 2009) [#13]

:-P