Re: (wish list) re: connection_ip()

• Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 08:08:00 PDT
• From:
  "Adams, Charles" <cadams@msgate.litc.lockheed.com>
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>>>>>

Well I was just thinking that all net funcs should return IPs
then if you want the name run it through a tohostname() or somesuch
and also be able to take "host.name.com" and run it through a
toip().  Then you have full control in-db as oppposed to being
at the whim of the DNS process, your DNS, and other things.
<<<<<

Alternatively, you could just do what Java does and take either IP addresses 
_or_ hostnames as addresses and let the server figure it out.

As for connection_ip(), it sounds good but actually, I'd prefer a 
generalized IP<->name converter function, one that doesn't require an 
existing connection to work.

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