[RoninTech]

That's what I figured was your issue jakewalk. This all stems from not having your networks setup to support hostnames. If you cannot ping every other network device via its hostname then its not setup correctly. Sure you can get by without having this setup but things like running servers becomes much more problematic when you don't.

This is a large problem domain so ideally if you know someone who understands this stuff maybe talk to them for pointers. Google is also your buddy here. If your still stuck then you'll need to explain how your network is setup i.e. what mechanism you use to provide IP addresses to network devices, how you think your setting up hostnames etc.

These days I believe all of the off the shelf routers/access points/firewalls that can serve DHCP can provide a hostname and update a local dns server on the router to handle local network hostname to IP address resolution.

P.S. Jake you should be trying "http://192.168.2.79:8080/get/epub/7" from stanza. Use a browser to confirm your URL's. Can you see the book cover image at "http://192.168.2.79:8080/get/cover/7" in safari on your iphone? I'm suprised that using the IP address passed in as the server hostname doesn't work. When you pass in the IP to calibre-server are you saying that you don't see the IP in the XML source if you browse to it?