On Dec 3 04:29, Brian Dessent wrote: > John Emmas wrote: > > > Forgive me - but as someone who's very new to socket programming, I'm > > confused about why the program worked when I built it under Linux. Is it > > because something would have converted "localhost" to an IP address (is this > > the lookup stuff that you referred to?) and where can I find out a bit more > > about all this? > > Using the older/classic Berkeley API, the socket app calls > gethostbyname() to convert a hostname to an address. The newer modern > API is getaddrinfo() which has a slightly different interface and is > more friendly for name lookups that could return IPv6 results.
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