OK, I was trying not to over complicate things and so my statement is misleading. Pretty much everything can use names (DNS, WINS NetBios etc)
In the url you posted http://frank:9000, "frank" would be resolved as the actual ip address of the server named. In order for network communication to take place. If the relationship between the name and the IP address is cached incorrectly, the url will fail. When you type a name into a URL in a browser, the 1st thing that will happen is a local lookup of the name to find the IP address. In a windows home network this is all taken care of by the OS. If the name and IP address is known, the browser will forward the request to the IP address that matched the name. If the name is unknown, the request to resolve will be sent to the DNS server (in most home cases the DNS server will be provided by the ISP and used to resolve internet addresses). As the issue here appears to be a mismatch in displayed IP vs the machine name, I wondered if the issue resolved itself once the cache expired? -- UV101 SB3 Deep Blue screen - 2 Clocks, 3 Low noise regs, SEPC & ZA caps, External PSU 80VA, Hexfred & Mundorf SI, RA Signature PowerKord. Audio Aero Capitole MKII Spinner & DAC, RESTEK fantasy (modded), Heavily modded SL-1200MKII,Denon DL-103L by Expert Stylus Co (Sapphire Cantilever & custom Diamond stylus),Classe Processor, Focal 706v kimber rewire and Mundorf Supreme in crossovers, 8TC speaker cables, Kimber power cables & NNUX mains filter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UV101's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37086 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93706 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
