Java Development

[Aviator168]

Is this possible?

I really hate to create some kind of socket connection or datagram connection just for obtaining the IP address of a remote host. Is there a short cut to do this like most OS APIs gethostbyname call?

[ydaraishy]

gethostbyname makes a connection. This is how DNS works everywhere.

Why do you need the IP address?

If you're connecting through BES/BIS, and you don't need to rely on DNS, because the BES/BIS servers will do this for you.

[Aviator168]

I need to unicast the same message to multiple receivers.

dc = (UDPDatagramconnection) Connector.open("udp://;1234;interface=wifi");

Datagram dg = dc.newDatagram(buf, buf.length);

dg.setAddress(IPAddrOfServer1);

dc.send(dg);

dg.setAddress(IPAddrOfServer2);

dc.send(dg);

dg.setAddress(IPAddrOfServerN);

dc.send(dg);

[ydaraishy]

I don't think there is any support for DNS in the BB API (there might be in 5.0? I didn't look); you will have to implement a DNS resolver yourself, I think.