In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel
Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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:

> >> ... 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';


> 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. 

In that case, use the host name you've configured for it. :)

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