[Live-devel] ip 0.0.0.0 in rtps url

[Ross Finlayson]

>It appears that the intent of the function "ourSourceAddressForMulticast" is
>to first attempt to use a multicast loopback method to determine the local
>IP, else if this fails use "gethostname". A problem in the test logic *may*
>exist in that if the multicast WRITE fails then the second method(calling
>"gethostname") is skipped, though if the multicast READ fails then
>"gethostname" is used as expected.
>
>Would it not be better to try "gethostname" regardless of what
>failed(Write/Read) ?

Yes, I think so.  I'll make this change in a future release.

(In practice, though, the systems that tend to have the most problems with 
multicast are embedded systems, and they're also systems for which the 
"gethostname"->"gethostbyname" method are least likely to work also.)


	Ross Finlayson
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