Bugzilla – Bug 10641
Allow SC entry by hostname
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:14:57 UTC
This has been a long-desired feature in SB3, but is unfeasible to the platform limitations. I think we should allow the user to choose to enter a host name in the manual server entry page, possibly with a small button next to the keyboard that says "By Name" that switches from the IP entry screen to a DNS entry screen.
Are you going to also resolve Windows NETBIOS names? Because the server name right now, when run on Windows, is exactly that. If you don't also permit NETBIOS names, then this is going to cause some confusion. While NETBIOS is generally only resolvable on the local subnet, where server discovery should work and using a address or name shouldn't be necessary, there are many situations where people have had to explicitly designate the local server.
Jim: Please open a separate bug for NETBIOS support. Ben: I believe that the connection code uses plain strings to connect, so I suspect that making this work for fully qualified domain names (FQDN) should be just about adjusting the keyboard, right?
I don't think this is required for MP, it unlikely people will get to this screen.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11406 ***