Accesing localhost of my machine with X30 over wireless

vpekulas · 11-16-05, 02:20 PM

Hope this is the right forum :)

I'm trying to make the localhost of my dev machine accesible to my X30 without assigning the localhost an IP address.

Is this doeable ? Any help would be appreciated ! Thanks.

ironhelix · 11-17-05, 02:13 PM

hmm

i dont think you want this application pocket host

maybe your trying to map your network ?

or maybe your trying to access your pc trough axim ?

im confused.

Watchin · 11-19-05, 09:05 PM

Hate to tell you this ...
Localhost (or 127.0.0.1 ) is NEVER accessable over the network.
It is one of the unique addresses in IP land. It is never transmitted out
of the box as the stack will not allow it (unless the IP stack is faulty).

This is purely used as the internal mechanism for software to talk to
each other over an IP or UDP port without having to worry about the
traffic leaving the system. Localhost is exactly that a "local host"

You can assign localhost (the name) as a logical name to any IP address
you want but that is against all standards, everything that talks
on your local machine using either IP or UDP will break.
Don't do it...

Every piece of standard software that uses the name Localhost is
assuming it to be 127.0.0.1 as the address. Network implementations
that don't have either host files or DNS support usually know
how to translate "localhost" into it's proper IP address.

Hope that helps,

Watchin · 11-19-05, 09:08 PM

SOO now what was the problem you wanted to solve ??
(now that the solution has been shot to Emethaluer) :D

vpekulas · 11-21-05, 11:02 AM

:) LOL Got back more questions then answers ! Sorry for the delay btw ... been out with a flu :(

Yes, I'm trying to access the application running on my PC's localhost with my Axim.

So as I see it now I have to assign an IP to the localhost in order to make it accessible from my Axim, right ?

vpekulas · 11-21-05, 11:08 AM

Thanks guys, I figured it out :)
I can access it via the 192.168.1.100 local IP.