Re: How can I get an accurate NS address?

Question

JC,
Create an ExternalConnection object in the partition, and use the
GetDotAddress method on it. That will give you the IP address of wherever
your partition is running. You can do this with one line:
MyIP : TextData = new( value = ExternalConnection().GetDotAddress() );
Don
At 05:18 PM 8/20/97 -0500, J.C. Hamlin wrote:
We have an application that needs to establish a TCP/IP connection to a
non-Forte service also running on the same server machine as Forte. We
would like to not store the IP Address of this server, as it will always
be the same IP address as the NS address (of course, the port will be
different). I'm trying to find a way to get the IP address of the name
server, and it must be without accessing a distributed reference to an
object on the server (i.e. it must be stored locally in the client
partition). I know it has to be stored somewhere, as Forte reads the
value from "FORTE_NS_ADDRESS", and the "-fns" command line flag can
override that value. But can I access it?
I could always do a task.part.operatingSystem.getEnv("FORTE_NS_ADDRESS")
but I don't think that will always be accurate, as the -fns flag can
override the value stored in that environment variable for a particular
ftexec process.
Anyone know where this might live and how I can access it?
Thanks in advance!
J.C. Hamlin, Senior Consultant
Forte National Practice
Born Information Services Group, Wayzata, MN
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
<[email protected]>
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Forte Software, Inc.
Denver, CO
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Answer 1

J.C. Hamlin wrote:
>
We have an application that needs to establish a TCP/IP connection to a
non-Forte service also running on the same server machine as Forte. We
would like to not store the IP Address of this server, as it will always
be the same IP address as the NS address (of course, the port will be
different). I'm trying to find a way to get the IP address of the name
server, and it must be without accessing a distributed reference to an
object on the server (i.e. it must be stored locally in the client
partition). I know it has to be stored somewhere, as Forte reads the
value from "FORTE_NS_ADDRESS", and the "-fns" command line flag can
override that value. But can I access it?
I could always do a task.part.operatingSystem.getEnv("FORTE_NS_ADDRESS")
but I don't think that will always be accurate, as the -fns flag can
override the value stored in that environment variable for a particular
ftexec process.
Anyone know where this might live and how I can access it?
Thanks in advance!
J.C. Hamlin, Senior Consultant
Forte National Practice
Born Information Services Group, Wayzata, MN
Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]
<[email protected]>
Hi JC,
So you want to connect to the Non-Forte Service on the same server as
Forte is running on, from the Client, whose fns might be passed as a
command line argument.
Try getting it from task.part.CmdLineArgs which returns an array of
Textdata of the all the arguments passed.
Bala Cuddalore
Sage Solutions
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