Folks, I was exploring various alternatives for the local host addresses in Bob, TiddlyServer and I expect what I found would be the same for node installs.
Problem - Normally on my home LAN my Bob and tiddly server are accessible on the LAN - To keep it tidy and so it did not interfere with my DHCP (fixed) network address I defined more addresses on my Network adaptor - Eg Desktop 192.168.1.119 (DHCP) TiddlyServer on 192.168.1.81, Bob on 192.168.84 - I have shared this tip previously - However when I connect to another lan like my hot spot these addresses are on the Wrong Network eg 192.168.3.X and do not work even just locally. Discovery - I discovered IPv4 network standards reserve the entire address block 127.0.0.0/8 (more than 16 million addresses) for loopback purpose - Which made me aware that 127.0.0.1 is not the only available local host address Tip/Solution - This means more than one instance of TiddlyServer and Bob/Bob.exe can be set to a local host address, - This leaves 127.0.0.1 free for hosting other servers. - I tested this and it works well eg I use 127.0.4.80 127.0.4.81 127.0.4.82 127.0.4.83 127.0.4.84 Extension - I hope that I am be able to configure TiddlySaver, Bob and Node to Share on the addresses 192.168.1.80 - 84 in addition to the local host address - This will only work when I am on the 192.168.1.x network - When on other networks such as 192.168.3.X or some shared network such as my "hot spot" they will not be available on the LAN - In my browser, on the computer hosting the servers, I will always use the different local host addresses, and they will always be available when the computer is on any network but private unless at home / 192.168.1.x networks which means I time I may change this. - Further investigation of The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) which has reserved 169.254.0.0-169.254.255.255 for Automatic Private IP Addressing. As a result, APIPA provides an address that is guaranteed not to conflict with routable addresses. Regards Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/63b05045-5a40-4433-8ba4-e60632ffe1af%40googlegroups.com.