comp.os.linux.networking

Unruh wrote:
> Rick Jones 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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