Hi list
Sems that the trouble comes from the "name.local" way of addressing on Macs 
which is to avoid, and this for a reason I ignore being by noway a network 
expert.
Works fine (means immediate response in case of absent / unexisting host) with 
either names without the .local extension (as in the netsend help patch) or 
with numerical IPs as suggested by Martin.
Thanks
JM


Le 17 oct. 2012 à 14:35, Martin Peach a écrit :

> Are you connecting to a named address or a numeric one?
> Connecting to a hostname causes a lookup to be performed, which blocks until 
> a name server replies. If you already know the numeric IP address of the 
> remote machine then it won't need to be searched for, and, under UDP, any 
> messages will be sent even though the remote host isn't there.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 2012-10-17 05:31, Jean-Marie Adrien wrote:
>> Hi list
>> Sorry to come up on the subject again, but there must be someone having 
>> solved this :
>> 
>> when trying to maintain a network of computers alive, it can happen that a 
>> machine tries periodically to connect to a distant host which is offline 
>> (because it is dead). In that case sending the message [connect> with a non 
>> available host to [netsend 0 or 1] results in a freezing of PD for 15 long 
>> seconds, which stops any interaction in realtime, which is kind of serious !
>> happens on OsX 10.6 /10.7   Pd 42.5
>> Is there a way to configure something to go around this ?
>> Thanks
>> JmA
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Le 7 oct. 2012 à 16:33, Martin Peach a écrit :
>> 
>>> On 2012-10-07 05:06, Jean-Marie Adrien wrote:
>>>> Hi list
>>>> When given a connect message with a host which is absent / offline, the 
>>>> netsend object takes one minute or so to respond "Bad Host" on Mac OsX. 
>>>> During that time, Pd is not responding to edit, close open and other GUI 
>>>> commands, Pd seems dead... and wakes up again only when the Bad Host 
>>>> message appears.
>>>> Is there a way to go around this ?
>>> 
>>> Maybe use UDP instead of TCP: [netsend 1]
>>> 
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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