Re: [Fwd: NSHost & DHCP]

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 02:01  pm, Stefan Böhringer wrote:

> Sorry if this appears twice, but I didn't see this message come 
> through.
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've used NSHost's -addresses and -names methods but have learned that
> neither hostname nor ip as supplied via DHCP is returned by these
> methods in my situation. Should this work or is it rather a problem 
> with
> my configuration?

Most likely, the address/name didn't exist when NSHost was first asked 
about the machine
and the info was cached ... I've made a change to get NSHost to 
re-check the hostname
whenever you ask for +currentHost, but you may also need to turn off 
caching using the
+setHostCacheEnabled: method.