Re: Simple host - technology

A few approaches spring to mind...

        o) Have some kind of naming service running that all clients and
servers know the location of and they register/unregister from it.
                Could use AD...

        o) Assuming you only want to search locally...you can try a UDP
broadcast which your hosts will be listening for....they can then respond
back
          to the client with their connection details.


        o) Use a hybrid of the two...run a naming service that responds to
broadcasts by hosts and clients, giving details of where the service
lives...Then allow clients and servers to use some higher level network API
to register/unregister and query available hosts.


Andy



-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion relating to the specifics of the C# and Managed C++
languages [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Osucha
Sent: 20 March 2007 13:16
To: [email protected]
Subject: [DOTNET-CX] Simple host - technology

Boy, I feel like this is my list lately - no one else has any questions?



For those who have used PCAnywhere - particularly in searching for hosts
on a network - PCAnywhere gives you a form with the hosts it has found
to which you can connect.  I need to do something similar - that is, I
need to scan for computers connected on the network that are running a
certain 'host' (that I need to make).  So my question is, what
technology/object/etc., do I search for when looking for info on how to
accomplish this?



I don't know the name of the technology/technique to do effective
searching.  Can someone please give me some good search terms/phrases?



(Oh, and thanks to all of you who continue to answer questions even when
you don't have many of your own to ask).



Peter




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