NetNameResolver on Linux always returns #(0 0 0 0)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 8 15:12:10 UTC 2000


John Clonts <jclonts at mastnet.net> wrote:
> Lex Spoon wrote:
> > 
> > John Clonts <jclonts at mastnet.net> wrote:
> > > On Squeak 2.7.  I don't have any other name-resolving problems on this
> > > machine....
> > >
> > > Any Ideas?
> > >
> > 
> > That's a sufficient address for telnetting to yourself.  Granted, the
> > #localHostAddress primitive is ill specified, but perhaps it should be
> > defined to give an Internet-wide address whenever possible.
> > 
> > Man, networking is really Squeak's weak point when it comes to
> > portability....
> > 
> > Lex
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't follow you.  I'm not expecting an address suitable
> for  connecting to myself/localhost, I'm wanting to connect to the
> Squeak Update Server, which NetNameResolver is telling me is at #(0 0 0
> 0), along with every other machine on the internet :)
> 

Ohh, someone else had that problem, and I thought it was a case of
everyone bumping into something at the same time.  Never mind, I have no
ideas; it works fine for me.


Lex





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