Turns out that Christian and I working on the same sort of program. Hence, I'm running up against the same sort of problems with name resolution that Christian is facing. If anyone has a solution for this, I wouldn't mind hearing about it as well.
Thanks much! Edmund Seto "Christian Vandendorpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Looking at the problem closer, I am actually also experiencing this > problem myself today (which kind of makes sense since all my users are > now mailing me). > > It seems that Yahoo (finance.yahoo.com) now returns 24 IP addresses and > that the Palm OS is not able to cope with this. At first the error was > netErrTimeout, I then increased the timeout value in NetLibGetHostByName > and now the error is netErrDNSTimeout. > > Can any Palm engineer please confirm that this could be a problem on the > Palm OS ?? Are there any workarounds (apart from using IP addresses)? > > Many thanks > > Chris > > > Christian Vandendorpe wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I've been using gethostbyname() in my network code for a long time with > > the fix for hostnames that return more than 4 addresses. This has worked > > fine. Every once in a while a user comes back to me saying that they got > > a "gethostbyname error" (an error message I output in case gethostbyname > > returns NULL). I usually tell them that this must be a problem with > > their DNS configuration in their network settings. > > > > However today I got 5 emails from users saying that gethostbyname > > failed. On my 2 Palms and in POSE it works fine. What can make > > gethostbyname() to fail ??? The same users usually claim that their > > other network apps (email, web browser) work fine. > > > > Any clues? anyone's got a reliable function to connect to a net address? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Chris > > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
