Interprocess Socket communication - localhost not working

General JUCE discussion
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tested on Win7 & Win8

If i start two instances of JUCE-Demo, one as listener, another as sender on the same computer (with Socket Host “localhost”) , the connection couldn’t be established.

if these instances are on different computers it works (in both directions!, so i guess it has nothing to do with the internal windows firewall)

So, what JUCE demo says

does not work here.

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okay, using 127.0.0.1 instead does work!

3

This is still true, any ideas why "localhost" wouldn't work?

By the way, where did the IPC demo go? It's no longer in the JUCE Demo project.

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I experienced the same issue with using the OSCSender class, which I assume has the same socket implementation underneath. Can’t send messages to “localhost”, but “127.0.0.1” works fine. Any suggestions?

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It looks to be because

    static addrinfo* getAddressInfo (const bool isDatagram, const String& hostName, int portNumber)

only takes numerical address, as indicated by this setting within it:

        hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICSERV;
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My understanding is that this only relates to the “service”, i.e. port number. I’ve certainly used getAddressInfo with a hostName that isn’t an IP address and it worked fine.

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I responded to your reply, but realized I misread it. So, to clarify, you’ve used the JUCE function getAddressInfo with a non-numerical host-name or you’ve done so with the low level getaddrinfo?

And, if that is the case, I recommend using a debugger to see where things are failing. Drop a breakpoint in getAddressInfo and see where things go wrong. And/or, for further testing verification, remove the hints.ai_flags = AI_NUMERICSERV; line and see if that makes a difference. I did see some references online that Windows tends to return ::1 for localhost, but I’m not sure how that would effect things.

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Thanks for the reply. When I get I chance I’ll need to do some debugging of this. I was hoping that someone more expert than me in this area would just know :wink:

I’m running into the problem using the Juce OSC module. I happen to know that the getaddrinfo gets IPs from hostnames because I’ve used it elsewhere in my code.