[Live-devel] Problems on iPhone when on cell network

[Ross Finlayson]

>However, because you're getting this error, it means that both 1/ 
>the iPhone's OS doesn't have an IP multicast route installed for 
>224/8, *and* 2/ the combination of "gethostname()" and 
>"gethostbyname()" isn't working.  If you can't fix either 1/ or 2/, 
>then you'll have to come up with some other mechanism for getting 
>your IP address.  (If you can do this, let us know, and we'll 
>consider adding it (as a third mechanism to try) to our 
>"ourIPAddress()" code.)
>
>Thanks for the overview, Ross.  Unfortunately I have not found a solution.

I would imagine that this - finding the iPhone's own IP address - is 
a common problem encountered by iPhone app developers.  You might 
want to ask on iPhone development forums about this.


>Regarding iOS, um, there actually was a config.iphoneos in the 
>archive I downloaded.  You might want to apply the "ar vs. libtool" 
>patch there, too.
>
>Isn't it great when you forget on how many platforms your own 
>software runs :).

Aha, yes, I'd completely forgotten about "config.iphoneos"; someone 
had contributed this just over a year ago: 
http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2010-May/012178.html
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/