Re: NSHost name

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> If you look at the documentation (either the GNUstep documentation or the Apple 
> documentation) you will see that your expectation is misguided ... the -name 
> method returns*a*  name of the host, not necessarily any particular one.
Ok! fine, I expected some smartness which is not guaranteed, the method 
can just return any of the names.
> If you have code which prefers particular names, you should use the -names 
> method to get all the names for the host, and then use some heuristic to pick 
> the one you prefer to use.
In GWorkspace, which was affected by this, I enhanced the logic by 
getting all names and using some heuristic prior to applying the already 
existing "cleaning" of the FQDN.
I can essentially have
"localhost" + any other names, then I give preference to the others.
I may have "myHost" and then I pick that, I can have "myHost.aa.bb" for 
a FQDN, in that case I try to pick myHost if available, else, if only 
the FQDN exist, then the existing "cleaning" logic that gets the first 
name before the "." remains in place.

Tries to work fine here and fixes my OpenBSD laptop too!
> All that being said ... I suspect the behavior you are looking for is that of 
> the -localizedName method Apple added in OSX 10.6
> I've just hacked in a quick implementation (untested) in svn trunk that you 
> could try.
In my other small tool where I was experiencing this and which led me to 
this analysis, I used localizedName and it appears to work for me! it 
returns "myHost" instead of localhost and that's enough for me. If it 
were a FQDN, it would be fine too. Essentially, give me just any other 
available name, if there is one, besides localhost.

Thanks,
Riccardo