Re: [question][code]gethostbyaddr....ports...

From: Invincibill (bill@longboys.net)
Date: 01/09/99


heh. i notice that.
i guess DAK's opinion was not so humble. :) it provided me absolutely
zero useful information.  oh well..ya live ya learn. i dont suppose
there are any good sockets programming primers are there? i bought a
TCP/IP in 21 days book. never got around to reading it tho. i suppose i
should.

thanks anyway guys. appreciate the help.

bill

George wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Invincibill wrote:
>
> >thanks, i was thinking it would help me keep track of people who were
> >definately multiplaying. what with all the ip spoofing and ip
> >masquerading from the linux boxes and the firewalls and proxy servers,
> >its easy for two people to have the same IP address and still be playing
> >separate characters.  however, if they both have the same port number,
> >i'm pretty sure thats an undeniable flag that somebody is multiplaying.
>
> The port wouldn't be the same even if they were using the same client for
> both connections.
>
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