[mythtv-users] Re:[Q] : Why only numeric IP addresses work?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 20 10:28:41 EST 2004


On Thursday 19 February 2004 18:31, seth wrote:
> i asked this question myself not too long ago and go tabsolutely no
> response.  personally, i don't see why myth won't try to resolve IPs,
> and even more mysterious to me is why it works fine on my
> mythbackend/mythfrontend box and my general server/mysql box but
> stops working when i try to add a remote frontend.
>
> server (running mysql, named, dhcp, mythweb, apache, etc) -
> 192.168.0.1 mythbox (mythbackend/mythfrontend)  = DHCP assigned IP,
> right now it's 192.168.0.99
> mamasan (mythfrontend) = DHCP assigned IP, right now it's
> 192.168.0.200
> BackendServerIP = 'mythbox' 
> MasterServerIP = 'mythbox'
>
> mythweb works fine from 'server', mythtv works fine from 'mythbox',
> mythfrontend does _not_ work from 'mamasan'.  not that it's _that_
> much work to change the hostnames to IPs, but still.

I believe this works because mythfrontend is able to determine that it's 
running on the same machine as the master backend, and so just uses the 
localhost interface.  No IP resolution required.  The remote frontend 
isn't so lucky...

Just a guess.  I suppose I could just look at the code...

-JAC


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