all ip addresses of machines in the local network

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Wednesday 30/8/2006 21:54, damacy wrote:

>in my program so far, multiple threads (255 threads in total) spawned
>at once with each one of them trying to call socket.gethostbyaddr(ip)
>function. i.e. if exception thrown, no machine found. i used .join() to
>wait for the threads to terminate. it's fully working however the
>problem is that it's too slow. it takes approx. 14 seconds to process
>(i tried using 'ping' but it's even slower.).

Do you have control over the server program?
Use UPD to broadcast a message, and make the server answer on that.
Or google for ZeroConf, UPnP or other techniques used for service discovery.



Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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