[X-Apps] gethostbyname("just the nmachine name ") not working

[wes]

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On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Arul Jeyananth wrote:

> Hi,
> gethostbyname("ip address of a macine in  the network") works fine .
> gethostbyname("just the nmachine name ") not working.
> But If I give the machine name, and the host file not having any entry 
> about
> the machine and there is no name for that machine in the DNS, that call
> fails
>
> Plese suggest some ways to rectify this problem

please use getaddrinfo() and getnameinfo() instead of gethostbyname(). 
these are the newer apis that handle ipv6 and they usually are better 
behaved than gethostbyname().

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wes / wgriffin at jtan.com / 000f1a2f

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