John Hasler <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick Jones wrote: > > Netperf has been passing IPs to getaddrinfo() without setting any > > special flags.
> Chuck Swiger writes: > > Maybe there are broken implementations of getaddrinfo() floating > > around? > On Linux you must set a flag to tell it not to consider the possibility > that what you are passing it is not a numeric address: > node specifies either a numerical network address (for IPv4, > numbers-and-dots notation as supported by inet_aton(3); for IPv6, > hexadecimal string format as supported by inet_pton(3)), or a > network hostname, whose network addresses are looked up and > resolved. If hints.ai_flags contains the AI_NUMERICHOST flag > then node must be a numerical network address. The > AI_NUMERICHOST flag suppresses any potentially lengthy network > host address lookups. > CONFORMING TO > POSIX.1-2001. The getaddrinfo() function is documented in RFC 2553. I may be parsing your sentence incorrectly, but my reading of the manpage is that one may set AI_NUMERICHOST, in which case node must be an IP address, but that is not the same thing as saying that if node is an IP address that AI_NUMERICHOST must be set. rick jones -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
