[Bug 9839] Game cannot connect using DirectPlay8.1

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9839





--- Comment #5 from Kai Blin <blin at gmx.net>  2007-10-11 02:25:21 ---
There are some good reasons why distros set up your hostname to point at a
loopback address. Assuming your computer gets it's IP address via DHCP, the IP
address usually keeps changing. Also, more and more people use laptop computers
these days, and don't have network connectivity while traveling.
In those cases you want to make sure the hostname actually resolves to an
address programs can use. Lots of Unix programs were written with static IP
addresses in mind.

This turns out to be a problem for Windows programs that were written by people
who did not know about BSD socket "best practices". Those programs try to
handle binding to an IP address themselves instead of binding to the "ANY" IP
address and letting the computer take care of the routing. Many of those
programs will fail on Windows if there are two active network cards and you
want to play over the one that was initialized first.

I have yet to come up with a good solution to this that doesn't require people
changing their /etc/hosts file.


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