Can TurboFloat client use host name or FQDN or only IP address to connect?

A client wants to use a hostname or FQDN to connect to their license server. Is this possible? They seem to be having an issue, and examples seem to only use IP addresses.

Yes, domain names work perfectly in TurboFloat. You must use the latest version. And, of course, you must specify both the domain name and the port (and the domain must actually exist).

Wyatt wrote:> Yes, domain names work perfectly in TurboFloat. You must use the latest> version. And, of course, you must specify both the domain name and the IP> address (and the domain must actually exist).

I am confused, why would one specify a host name and an IP address? The client might have a server at, say, licenses.example.com, and rather than entering the IP address, 10.0.0.1, would just like to use licenses.example.com.

From an admin point of view, if the license server is moved to another machine with a different IP address, the host name lookup (whether DNS or something else) would find the new server IP address automatically.

Sorry, I meant port. I've updated the original post to reflect that.

Short answer: yes, we support domain names. The customer is doing something wrong (if they're using the latest version and using a domain name is failing).

Wyatt wrote:> Sorry, I meant port. I've updated the original post to reflect that.> > Short answer: yes, we support domain names. The customer is doing something> wrong (if they're using the latest version and using a domain name is> failing).

Ok, after some experimenting, it seems that non-FQDNs fail somehow. e.g. using a host name[1] of say myhostname, fails with TF_E_INET. Using myhostname. (notice the dot at the end) makes the domain name fully qualified, but this can fail if the host name is not configured correctly (testing using an incorrectly configured hosts[2] file). FQDNs correctly configured[3] succeed.

Here are examples from the hosts file of each condition:

1. Host name not fully qualified (fails). Using the following line in hosts: 192.168.x.y myhostname

2. Host name in hosts file as follows (fails), note the dot at the end: 192.168.x.y myhostname.

3. Host name fully qualifed, the following line in hosts file used: 192.168.x.y myhostname.mydomain.mytld myhostname

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