Hi, On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:28:11PM +0200, Sebastien Sable wrote: > My gethostbyaddr seems to give the peer name with the domain, and no > alias... The version of libc on my computer is the GNU C Library > 2.2.4 provided in Debian without any change, so something rather > common and recent.
My libc is 2.1.3 from Debian stable. > I searched for 'gethostbyaddr' in GNU libc bugs page and found > nothing. > > Looking at bugs.debian.org for libc6, one of the bugs is : [telnet problem] > I don't know if this is related, but maybe gethostbyaddr as changed > its behaviour in recent versions of libc? > There must be a correct way to use it however since most of my network > programs (ssh, telnet, ftp...) work correctly with short names (well, > they don't use something as saned.conf either). As I'm not experienced in this field and don't have more ideas I will add this to the TODO list. Bye, Henning
