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# resolve()

Starts a resolve process for the service.

```
func resolve()
```

## Discussion

Attempts to determine at least one address for the service. This method returns immediately, with success or failure indicated by the callbacks to the delegate.

In OS X v10.4, this method calls [`resolve(withTimeout:)`](/documentation/Foundation/NetService/resolve(withTimeout:)) with a timeout value of `5`.

## See Also

[`addresses`](/documentation/Foundation/NetService/addresses)

A read-only array containing `NSData` objects, each of which contains a socket address for the service.


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