Newbie: where to start
Newbie: where to start
- Subject: Newbie: where to start
- From: Mark Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:42:15 -0700
I'm new to networking (did a little Open Transport many years back),
and would like to create a simple app--a diagnostic that finds all
the nodes on my local network, plus some remote (such as
www.apple.com and www.google.com). The app would then "ping" those
addresses on command--just a quick way to verify whether I've lost my
DSL connection or something internal to my network.
I found the "simplePing" program that works to ping hosts (and
figures out what the IP address is of "www.apple.com"). However, I
wasn't sure how to figure out the local network addresses. I wasn't
sure if Bonjour was the way to go. Any ideas?
I'd also like some pointers on where to look to learn more about Mac
(or general) networking--I'm not sure where a starting point is. I
know I need to understand better sockets, but I'm sure there's
more :) I picked my "network" ping app more because I could find it
useful (maybe there already is something like that?) but more
importantly, I thought it would be a good introduction into networking…
Thanks!
Mark _______________________________________________
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