En Fri, 25 May 2007 00:04:04 -0300, 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> I'm experimenting with a basic socket program(from a book), and both > the client and server programs are on my computer. In both programs, > I call socket.gethostname(), but I discovered that when I am connected > to the internet, both the client and server hang and nothing happens. > I discovered that the hostname of my computer automatically changes to > that of my isp when I'm connected to the internet, and presumably the > server program on my computer cannot listen on my isp's address(host, > port). Is there a way to make the hostname of my computer static, so > that it doesn't change to my isp's hostname when I connect to the > internet. I'm using mac os 10.4.7. Why does my computer's hostname > dynamically change in the first place? Don't use any hostname at all; use '' instead. That should bind to any interfase on your computer. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
