Replace gethostbyaddr() with getnameinfo() as getnameinfo()
deprecates the former and allows programs to
eliminate IPv4-versus-IPv6 dependencies

Signed-off-by: Shyam Saini <[email protected]>
---
 libxtables/xtables.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libxtables/xtables.c b/libxtables/xtables.c
index 6e75c15..e1512b1 100644
--- a/libxtables/xtables.c
+++ b/libxtables/xtables.c
@@ -1210,13 +1210,18 @@ const char *xtables_ipaddr_to_numeric(const struct 
in_addr *addrp)
 
 static const char *ipaddr_to_host(const struct in_addr *addr)
 {
-       struct hostent *host;
+       static char hostname[NI_MAXHOST];
+       struct sockaddr_in saddr = { .sin_family = AF_INET, };
+       saddr.sin_addr = *addr;
+       int err;
 
-       host = gethostbyaddr(addr, sizeof(struct in_addr), AF_INET);
-       if (host == NULL)
-               return NULL;
 
-       return host->h_name;
+       err = getnameinfo((const void *)&saddr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in),
+                      hostname, sizeof(hostname) - 1, NULL, 0, 0);
+       if (err != 0)
+               return NULL;
+
+       return hostname;
 }
 
 static const char *ipaddr_to_network(const struct in_addr *addr)
-- 
2.7.4

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