Re: Trouble with getbyhostname()

Jurgen Haan <jurgen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Uhm... not being a programmer, or anything, but isn't gethostbyname
used for resolving names into adresses and not the other way around?

Yes, but for the last decade or so just about everyone's
gethostbyname() is willing to take-in an IPv4 address as a
dotted-decimal string.

However, for the last, oh five years or so, people should be migrating
to getaddrinfo() rather than gethostbyname()... :)

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