Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Sayers
mic-dns-host-names that should get you going. -Original Message- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Warner Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:05 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search Importance: L

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread John Warner
il Sayers > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:56 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search > > > Hi John, > > I'm not exactly sure what your asking here, but i'll take a > stab and you let me know where i can add det

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Sayers
they will be directed to the appropriate IP address as referenced in the DNS record you just created. This allows you to move the "server software" to a different physical machine, and you can redirect all "clients" by editing the DNS record to point to the new IP address. Sav

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread John Warner
23, 2008 8:23 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search > > > If you can guaruntee DNS will be running on your software's > destination network, you could create a "host" A-record in > DNS (ex: PHSERVER, and cli

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread Phil Sayers
ncy/requirement (DNS) to your product, but it is a possible solution. -Original Message- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Osucha Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 7:57 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET]

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-23 Thread Peter Osucha
P.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search Yes, if PHost isn't running or isn't listening continuously, the you'll have to pick an arbitrary length of time to listen. You might want to have a look at the DHCP protocol [1]. Parts of it's protocol sound much the same as yo

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Ritchie
Yes, if PHost isn't running or isn't listening continuously, the you'll have to pick an arbitrary length of time to listen. You might want to have a look at the DHCP protocol [1]. Parts of it's protocol sound much the same as you've described. [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169289 On Thu,

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Osucha
On Behalf Of Peter Ritchie Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:31 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search What John is suggesting is to open a socket to an unassignable IP address-- a broadcast address. This is a special address that specifies what

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Ritchie
What John is suggesting is to open a socket to an unassignable IP address-- a broadcast address. This is a special address that specifies what subnet the broadcast is limited to. It's not an address that can be assigned to a NIC (e.g. by DHCP). There's an example of this here: http://www.java2s.

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread John Warner
ecific port). > > Peter > > > > -Original Message- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Warner > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:55 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNE

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Osucha
y, May 22, 2008 8:55 AM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search Importance: Low Do you 'understand' the protocol used by PHost? What I mean is the normal broadcast address is xxx.xxx.255.255 (ex 192.168.1.255), would Phost recognize properly f

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread John Warner
e- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Osucha > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 8:43 AM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search > > > Hello, > > I've got

[ADVANCED-DOTNET] Network Search

2008-05-22 Thread Peter Osucha
Hello, I've got machines on a network that are running a program (called PHost). I've got a client application (called ICS) that can connect to machines running PHost to retrieve data. I would like to setup a system (perhaps similar to PC Anywhere) in which ICS can send out a broadcast over a