"David B. Rees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
> I recently upgraded to glibc-2.1.1pre2 from glibc-2.1.1pre1, and found that
> doing a gethostbyname on IP addresses now fails. For instance, the following
> code returns NULL on a glibc-2.1.1pre2 machine, and the same binary works fine
> on another non-glibc-2.1.1pre2 machine:
You are misusing the gethostbyname() misbehaviour at some versions
of the glibc-2.0. Per specification doing mapping from IPv4 address to
hostent structures, you should use: inet_aton() (or inet_pton() for
newer systems)
> if ((ht = gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")) == NULL) {
> printf("Error: %d ", h_errno);
> else
> printf("Fine and dandy\n");
....
> -Dave
/Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
