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Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server

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From David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Newsgroups comp.protocols.tcp-ip, comp.protocols.misc, comp.sources.d
Subject Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server
Date Mon, 4 Apr 2011 02:48:52 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 1, 6:22 am, Generic Usenet Account <use...@sta.samsung.com>
wrote:

> I would appreciate if someone can tell me what is the best way for
> runtime discovery of a local server that is running a specific
> service.  The service is running on an IANA registered port.  I
> believe that there is some DNS and DHCP magic that can be performed to
> return the address of such a server.

The server has to do something that the client can detect. What that
something is -- it can be anything. Without knowing your requirements,
it's really hard to give you a useful answer. On what basis is the
client supposed to choose a server? Is there one server for the
planet? Are the server and client always on the same LAN? Or what?

DS

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Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server Generic Usenet Account <usenet@sta.samsung.com> - 2011-04-01 06:22 -0700
  Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> - 2011-04-04 02:48 -0700
    Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2011-04-04 20:35 -0400
      Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server Generic Usenet Account <usenet@sta.samsung.com> - 2011-04-05 11:23 -0700
        Re: Q) Runtime discovery of a specific server Generic Usenet Account <usenet@sta.samsung.com> - 2011-04-05 11:25 -0700

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