Palm OS Network Programming

Summary

We extended FtpView to demonstrate retrieving host information by name and address and retrieving service information by name. We used a network resource for the first time. Hostname resolution depends on servers to provide DNS services; the Palm OS protocol stack does not support local hosts files.

In this chapter, we learned about host naming conventions and the rules for IP addresses. We explored the Palm OS Net Library functions that provide support for host and service resolution. We learned how to identify and locate a host on the network. In the next chapter, we connect with that host.