Hi,

For me it does something sensbile on MacOS 10.15.7 and on Windows. 
Both with Squeak 6.0.

cheers

bruce

On 2023-03-31T04:06:12.000+02:00, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 06:13:55PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>  We've had a few discussions about this issue over the years and
>>  never really decided on anything more certain than "er, well..."
>>  
>>  There's certainly a bigger discussion around moving to the 'new
>>  networking' setting but for this one particular query it seems to
>>  me that using the code currently in NetNameResolver
>>  class>>#localHostName that gets ignored by the #useOldNetwork
>>  option is a good option. That is, 
>>  
>>  localHostName
>>  "Return the local name of this host."
>>  "NetNameResolver localHostName"
>>  
>>  | host |
>>  host := String new: NetNameResolver primHostNameSize.
>>  NetNameResolver primHostNameResult: host.
>>  ^host
>>  
>>  returns a value that seems to be helpful, and that is retrieved
>>  via the unix function gethostname(), which is used by the hostname
>>  command. Are there any problems with the idea of using this?
> 
> Could someone please test this on Windows and Mac? To test it,
> use Tim's change above, then find the 'Enable IPv6 and new network
> support' preference in category 'General' in the preference browser.
> 
> Turn the preference on and off, and see if the localHostName method
> answers something sensible in both cases.
> 
> It looks right to me on Linux but results may be different on other
> platforms.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave

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