Resolve host name to an ip address

Question

I developed a client/server simulation application. I deployed client and server on two different Windows XP machines. Somehow, the client is not able to send requests to the se

Answer 1

This is hard to answer without more detail about the network architecture. Some things to investigate are:

• Is it possible that client and/or server is behind a NAT device, a firewall, or similar?
• Is any of the IP addresses involved a "local" address, like 192.168.x.y or 10.x.y.z?
• What are the host names, are they "real" DNS:able names or something more local and/or Windows-specific?
• How does the client look up the server? There must be a place in code or config data that holds the host name, simply try using the IP there instead if you want to avoid the lookup.