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

[manu]

Le 19.02.2004 16:31:48, seth a écrit :
> 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.

In my case this also works because the hostname is also an alias on my  
hosts file that resolves to localhost, so I guess this works just  
because of that (ie there is not a real resolving of name but kind  
of ;-)

> 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 am also waiting for the good reason why not using host names and  
resolving them. Stay tuned ;-0
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