Using hostnames vs. only IP

[ThomasLund]

I just checked back on an old issue on the early days of Unity/SFS API, and this one seems to be fixed.

The mono version that Unity had bundled had a bug that didnt allow for hostnames to be resolved - so one had to input IP of the SFS server.

This is now fixed, so the next version of the API will lift this restriction.

For those that want this _right now_ (like myself), the fix is pretty easy to do in the sources.

Simply find this in the ConnectThread() method

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        private void ConnectThread()
        {
            try
            {
                IPAddress parsedIpAddress = IPAddress.Parse(ipAddress);
                socketConnection = new TcpClient();
                socketConnection.Connect(parsedIpAddress, port);

into

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        private void ConnectThread()
        {
            try
            {
                socketConnection = new TcpClient();
                socketConnection.Connect(ipAddress, port);

This has been verified working on iPhone 1.5 and Unity 2.5.1 - it is unknown at what point in time backward this fix was introduced. So make sure you use those Unity versions before attempting this

/Thomas

[kaligus]

Hey Thomas, do you know when the next release will be available and what is the major changes?

[ThomasLund]

I'm personally in "release mode" for our biggest game yet for the next 1.5 weeks (meaning nothing else than that right now). Then I'm 1.5 weeks in the US for a game dev conference.

So next release will be earliest in a month time.

Features? Primarily bugfixes as well as this hostname thing. There are some bugs in the buddylist part and roomlist changes.

/Thomas

[kaligus]

Very nice.
I very would like to see the game you working on.

[ThomasLund]

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