Following the previous thread I now have a beta C/S running rather more
easily that I expected and it has survived a small, 2-day international
competition.

But I just ran into a small issue with using the RemoteHost property on
the server host.
I chose to use my computer's hostname rather than an IP address when
connecting to the server (on the local machine) and it worked .. mostly.

But on one machine which had VMWarePlayer installed, connecting the
Session picked up one of the VMWare IP addresses (on a different
subnet) and that broke my home-brewed database copy/synchronise
procedure.

Replacing the actual hostname with 'localhost' for the purpose of
connecting to the server on the same host, appears to have fixed my
problem.

Have others run into this issue and is this the correct/best solution?  

Malcolm

Malcolm,

<< But I just ran into a small issue with using the RemoteHost property on the server host. I chose to use my computer's hostname rather than an IP address when connecting to the server (on the local machine) and it worked .. mostly.

But on one machine which had VMWarePlayer installed, connecting the Session picked up one of the VMWare IP addresses (on a different subnet) and that broke my home-brewed database copy/synchronise procedure. >>

If you want to ensure that you're connecting to the local loopback address, then the guaranteed way to make this happen is to use 127.0.0.1 with the RemoteAddress property. Any time you use the RemoteHost property, you are subject to DNS queries that can be affected by the hosts file as well as the DNS server being used and which records it has access to on the local LAN/machine.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

>
> If you want to ensure that you're connecting to the local loopback
> address, then the guaranteed way to make this happen is to use
> 127.0.0.1 with the RemoteAddress property. Any time you use the
> RemoteHost property, you are subject to DNS queries that can be
> affected by the hosts file as well as the DNS server being used and
> which records it has access to on the local LAN/machine.
>

Thanks Tim.  I have experimented using 'localhost', or a blank hostname
'', or the IP address my app knows.  All appeared to give me a working
connection and my copy/synchronise.

Can I take it that with a blank RemoteHost, the Session will fall back
to the RemoteAddress which I have left defaulting to 127.0.0.1 ?

Malcolm

Malcolm,

Sorry about the late reply, I completely missed your response...

<< Can I take it that with a blank RemoteHost, the Session will fall back to the RemoteAddress which I have left defaulting to 127.0.0.1 ? >>

That is correct.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:

>
> That is correct.

Thanks for that.  
It bears out my beta testing both at sea level in Bonny Scotland and
the rarified atmosphere of Mexico City.

Malcolm

Malcolm,

<< It bears out my beta testing both at sea level in Bonny Scotland and the rarified atmosphere of Mexico City. >>

Now that's a long flight !

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
>
> Now that's a long flight !
>
Fortunately there are tools like TeamViewer and Skype.

Malcolm


I can understand avoiding Mexico City but Scotland is nice (apart from our politicians but those are horrible everywhere)

Roy Lambert

Malcolm,

<< Fortunately there are tools like TeamViewer and Skype. >>

Yeah, but the margaritas....

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim


>Yeah, but the margaritas....

Errr - we have whisky in Scotland not margaritas

Just thought you should know

Roy