bluegroper;316435 Wrote: > The more I think about the SB fixation with quad.dotted.ip.addresses, > the more it surprises me. > Lotsa home setups use a dhcp server in their modem/router, and every > host on the home lan gets a dynamic ip allocated by that dhcp server. > So why can't an SB find the SS or SC by hostname (which is usually > fixed), > rather than ip address (which is often dynamic). > Seems an interesting design decision.
A couple of likely reasons. Firstly when you say that the hostnames on most home lans are fixed, I assume that you are talking about Windows mainly. The look up from hostname to IP address on such a lan does not occur via any open Internet standard. Some proprietary Windows magic does it (I forget at the moment what it is called, it starts with "win"), which doesn't always work as well as it should. So if they wanted to use that mechanism the SBs would have to implement said Windows magic, which would be likely to not work on many Linux/BSD/OSX based networks. Secondly, the approach that the SBs take to find the SS means that in most situations you never have to enter either the IP address or the hostname of the server. If they used a hostname based approach to configure the SB to connect to the server then most of their users that the current mechanism just works for would have more work to do when setting up their systems. The current broadcast discovery mechanism also allows the SBs to discover more that one SC and let the user choose between them. -- andynormancx Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ? I SAID ALL OF THEM ! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andynormancx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17417 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49350 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
