Category Image Using Bonjour hostnames instead of IP addresses


OS X Panther and Tiger come with built-in multicast dns host name resolving.

...In Panther client, I could just use ssh admin@xmysql and it worked, however in Panther server and Tiger client/server I have to correctly use ssh admin@xmysql.local to resolve the host name.

For WO https development, you can use your dev machine name as the host name for the ssl certificate.

...Bonjour is available as a download from Apple (just google "Bonjour for Windows" to find it) so that your Windows PC's can easily access your mac services and in particular your development WO app on your dev machine using mymac.local as the host.

OS X Panther and Tiger come with built-in multicast dns host name resolving. The technology is called Bon jour, formerly known as RendezVous. Basically this is zero-config networking for local subnet networking and is very useful. Bonjour hostnames are qualified by adding a ".local" onto the computername.

For example, we have a server named "xmysql". In Panther client, I could just use ssh admin@xmysql and it worked, however in Panther server and Tiger client/server I have to correctly use ssh admin@xmysql.local to resolve the host name.

For WO https development, you can use your bonjour hostname as the host name for the ssl certificate. For example computername.local.

Bonjour is available as a download from Apple (just google "Bonjour for Windows" to find it) so that your Windows PC's can easily access your mac services and in particular your development WO app on your dev machine using computername.local as the host.

Posted: Monday - March 27, 2006 at 12:04 PM        

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