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Subject: Re: CS 551 Servant
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:13:42 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > I am sorry if this question has already been asked (I could not
  > find it tough) ... What should we use as our host name? It is not
  > defined in the ini file ... so I am using localhost at the moment
  > ... but while sending a join message what should be the host name
  > in the message ?

You should call gethostname() to get the name of the host
you are running on.
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