On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:43 AM, brian d foy wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ray
Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
$host = 'localhost';
... to connect to the MySQL database. When run from your wife's
computer, you'll have to change the 'localhost' to the IP address
Just use the zero-conf Bonjour stuff. Find your server's name and
append .local to it. Look in the Sharing control panel for the right
name.
$host = 'albook.local';
Ouch.
Okay, looking around the 'net for zero-conf answers the old nagging
question of why my machine refers to itself as something.local when I
have a valid dns name set for it. It makes me a little queasy,
since .local was supposed to be reserved for a slightly different
administrative purpose, but, on the other hand, it kind of makes sense.
(Thanks, Wikipedia.)
(And the flame war echoing in my head from a certain final call in
2005 on LLMNR might keep me from getting my sleep tonight, too. Lousy
M$lop.)
It's not just Mac, either. You can get stuff for the various other
unices and even Windows to do this.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bonjour/
