Re: Trouble with getbyhostname()

Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rick Jones <rick.jones2@xxxxxx> writes:
However, for the last, oh five years or so, people should be
migrating to getaddrinfo() rather than gethostbyname()... :)

Which unfortunately has ( or maybe had) a problem in that it would
not use the local hosts file but went out to the dns server for
everything.

I would expect that is had rather than has as I've been using it
without reported trouble (of that sort at least) in netperf for a few
years now.

rick jones
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