On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > If a simple gethostbyname() replacement is what you want, > > getipnodebyname() should be used if getaddrinfo() doesn't do it. > > Yes, getipnodebyname looks nice.
But it's obsolete and e.g. not present in glibc anymore. I can't comment other C libraries, but I'm told getaddrinfo() is the only resolving function supported by the standard IPv6 API. I don't know if the IPv6 API is finally stabilized now, but for many years it was nothing but a floating mess, sigh... -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available +
