This may be an IOS thing, but wanted to ask/mention. When detecting/acquiring host entries for the local machine, I run identical code on Windows and an iDevice. Specifically Dns.BeginGetHostEntry.
On a Windows box, running .net 3.5, in the absence of a DNS server, this operation still succeeds and I acquire the local addresses. However, in experimenting with ad-hoc wireless, in the absence of a DNS server, I am finding the iDevice - having failed to find a DNS server, falls back to MDNS (multicast DNS) queries to a 224.x.x.x address. After failing that, acquisition of local host addresses fails. So, the same code is behaving very differently in .net applications in the same situation. Is there any other means of acquiring local device addresses other than through Dns.BeginGetHostEntry using the local hostname? Is this a problem with the MT implementation of Dns.BeginGetHostEntry or with IOS (I'm assuming it is an issue with IOS as the fallback to MDNS is well documented). -- View this message in context: http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Behavior-of-Dns-BeginGetHostEntry-tp4656550.html Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ MonoTouch mailing list MonoTouch@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch
