Re: Obtaining the client's host name
Thank-you for the suggestion - I will just use gethostbyaddr_r for the moment. On 8 August 2011 16:02, Leif Hedstrom zw...@apache.org wrote: On 08/08/2011 08:09 AM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote: I would think we'd need to provide a convenience function that uses the DNS subsystem to do PTR record lookups. Agreed. I think we should provide the equivalent of TSHostLookup(), but for PTR lookups. -- Leif
Re: Obtaining the client's host name
There is no API to get the client hostname. I recommend doing the gethostbyaddr_r directly as any API would simply be a wrapper around that. Monday, August 8, 2011, 4:26:40 AM, you wrote: Hi, Is it possible using the API to obtain the client's host name - i.e. a reverse DNS lookup? If not I guess it is safe to use gethostbyaddr_r to look it up from the client's IP address. Thank-you, Chris Reynolds.
Re: Obtaining the client's host name
I would think we'd need to provide a convenience function that uses the DNS subsystem to do PTR record lookups. On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Alan M. Carroll a...@network-geographics.com wrote: There is no API to get the client hostname. I recommend doing the gethostbyaddr_r directly as any API would simply be a wrapper around that. Monday, August 8, 2011, 4:26:40 AM, you wrote: Hi, Is it possible using the API to obtain the client's host name - i.e. a reverse DNS lookup? If not I guess it is safe to use gethostbyaddr_r to look it up from the client's IP address. Thank-you, Chris Reynolds. -- Theo Schlossnagle http://omniti.com/is/theo-schlossnagle
Re: Obtaining the client's host name
On 08/08/2011 08:09 AM, Theo Schlossnagle wrote: I would think we'd need to provide a convenience function that uses the DNS subsystem to do PTR record lookups. Agreed. I think we should provide the equivalent of TSHostLookup(), but for PTR lookups. -- Leif
