comp.os.linux.networking

Rick Jones writes:

>Jurgen Haan 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()... :)

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.



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