Re: CuSeeMe 1.0 and Windows 98 II

Jason Williams (streak@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:46:12 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Brian Godette wrote:
> >Where does bind_ip come from though? If you use something like
>
> With ERef, if no hostname is defined in reflect.conf then it uses
> gethostname() then gethostbyname() then gethostbyaddr() to normalize the
> hostent. If one hostname is defined then it check to see if it's an ip
> address (inet_addr(hostname)) and if not does gethostbyname() and
> gethostbyaddr().

Your ERef also allows you to choose which interface to bind to. White
Pine reflectors let you generate a list of interfaces to bind to. None of
the clients though let you choose. And there's a LOT more clients out
there than reflectors. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add (as
you did in the Enhanced Ref).

I wonder if this explains why the White Pine version of the client seems
to choose a different interface to bind to than the Cornell version?

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