Is your network card disabled or unplugged? Check your computer properties as well for the full dns name - does it seem valid?
-----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Bugeja Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:26 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] .NET Remoting 1.1 Crashing - WinXP SP2 I have have just installed WinXp SP2 on a development Workstation running IIS hosted remoting application. I have turned the windows firewall off, but the application is failing to start up with the error below. There's nothing else of note in the logs, and the machine seems to be working perfectly otherwise. Has anyone encountered this before? System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: The system detected an invalid pointer address in attempting to use a pointer argument in a call at System.Net.Dns.GetHostName() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CoreChannel.GetHostName() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CoreChannel.GetMachineName() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.CoreChannel.GetMachineIp() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpServerChannel.SetupMachineName() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpServerChannel..ctor() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpChannel..ctor() at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Http.HttpRemotingHandler.InternalProcessRequest(HttpContext context) =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor� http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com