#5 Take a hostname for a server to connect to

[Anonymous]

Right now we have to give an IP address to connect to.
It would be very nice if we could simply use hostnames
and fully qualified domain names.

[CarpDeus]

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Easy enough to do. Modify SockIOPool's SetServer(ArrayList servers) with the code below. While .NET 1's Dns.Resolve will work with 2.0, I'm using 2.0's recommended GetHostEntry.

I still need to do some testing to see what kind of throughput this gets. MS says I should be able to just use the DNS resolution without loss of performance even on IP addresses but I would like to test this out before I drop the initial check for an IP address

public void SetServers(ArrayList servers)
{
for (int i = 0; i < servers.Count; i++)
{
try
{
Convert.ToInt64(servers[i].ToString().Replace(".", "").Replace(":", ""));
}
catch
{
string PortNumber = servers[i].ToString().Substring(servers[i].ToString().IndexOf(":"));
// .NET 1
//ResolvedServers.Append(Dns.Resolve(servers[i].ToString().Substring(0, servers[i].ToString().LastIndexOf(":"))).AddressList[0].ToString());
servers[i] = Dns.GetHostEntry(servers[i].ToString().Substring(0, servers[i].ToString().LastIndexOf(":"))).AddressList[0].ToString() + PortNumber;
}
}
_servers = servers;
}