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The complete network address to be used by the WSL process as its listening address. The listening address for a WSL is the means by which it is contacted by Workstation client processes participating in the application.
If the string has the form 0xhex-digits
or \\xhex-digits
, it must contain an even number of valid hex digits. These forms are translated internally into a character array containing the hexadecimal representations of the string specified.
TCP/IP addresses may be specified in either of the following formats.
Format 1: //hostname:port_number
In Format 1, the bridge finds an address for hostname
using the local name resolution facilities (usually DNS). hostname
must unambiguously resolve to the address of the machine on which the bridge resides.
Format 2: //
#
.
#
.
#
.
#
:
port_number
In Format 2, the #.#.#.#
is in dotted decimal format. In dotted decimal format, each #
should be a number from 0 to 255. This dotted decimal number represents the IP address of the local machine.
In both of the above formats, port_number
is the TCP port number at which the bridge will listen for incoming requests. The value of port_number
can be either a number (between 0 and 65535) or a name. If port_number
is a name, then it must be found in the network services database on your local machine.
The address can also be specified in hexadecimal format when preceded by the characters 0x
. Each character after the initial 0x
is a number between 0 and 9 or a letter between A and F (case insensitive). The hexadecimal format is useful for arbitrary binary network addresses such as IPX/SPX or TCP/IP.
The address can also be specified as an arbitrary string (with a maximum of 78 characters). For example, string addresses are used in STARLAN networks.
Suppose the local machine on which a TDomain is being run is using TCP/IP addressing and is named backup.company.com
, with address 155.2.193.18
. Further suppose that the port number at which the TDomain should accept requests is 2334
. Assume that port number 2334
has been added to the network services database under the name bankapp-wsl
. You can specify the address in any of the following five formats:
//155.2.193.18:bankapp-wsl
//155.2.193.18.2334
//backup.company.com:bankapp-wsl
//backup.company.com:2334
0x0002091E9B02C112
The last line shows an address in hexadecimal format where 0002
is the first part of a TCP/IP address and 091E
is the port number 2334 translated into a hexadecimal number. The rest of the line contains hexadecimal numbers that are translations of the elements of the IP address 155.2.193.12: "155" becomes "9B", "2" becomes "02", and so on.
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