Thank you very much you guys, i've got it all sorted now.
"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message
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> "Jacques Noah" <jacques.noah@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>> i seem to remember that you could get the names by
>> doing something like 'AConnection.LocalName'
>
> That is not correct. In order to get the name of a remote machine, you
> must
> perform a reverse DNS query, for example:
>
> var RemoteName: String;
>
> with AContext.Connection.Socket.Binding do
> RemoteName := GStack.HostByAddress(PeerIP, IPVersion);
>
> In Indy 9, it was the following instead:
>
> RemoteName :=
> GStack.WSGetHostByAddr(AThread.Connection.Socket.Binding.PeerIP);
>
>> since upgrading to indy10.1.5, i cannot find this property.
>
> That property has not existed in any version of Indy 10. Nor did it ever
> do
> what you are asking for to begin with. The LocalName property returned
> exactly what its name suggests - the *local* name of the server itself,
> not
> the name of any of the *remote* (aka *peer*) clients.
>
>
> Gambit
