On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:41:05 +0100, Walco wrote: > Hi Steve, > > >>And remeber correctly you did! My hostname in /etc/hosts was different > >>than the actual hostname reported. Edit file, reboot, and Wooo Hooo > >>dssi land has arrived. Thasnk for all the help guys. > > > > > >OK, I had hoped that the fix in the latest version would actually make > >this case work for the local case. Maybe we should ship some testcode to > >spot this case and warn people? > > I was assuming he was still using liblo 0.15 - the 'local case' should > work in 0.16. In the scenario that the name resolution setup is *really* > screwed (empty hosts file, no/misconfigured dns), liblo's fallback on > hostname 'localhost' (which then can also not be found) will only work > if liblo clients connect explicitly using the loopback IP address > instead of the default 'localhost'. In that case a warning might be > appropriate. I have considered that, but the problem is that there is more than one loopback address. I'm taking the poistion that liblo wont work if your networking setup is too deeplytruely mangled. - Steve
