Most operating systems have the getaddrinfo function which will do both if you fill the hints.ai_family as PF_UNSPEC.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sankaran Narayanan http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sankaran > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shankara, > Udaya > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:02 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [Sip-implementors] DNS address resolution > > > Hi, > When a hostname is to be resolved to an IP address through DNS > A or AAAA > lookup, is there a way to know, in advance, whether to make an A or AAAA > query? Or in other words, is there a way to make one DNS query and get > either A or AAAA record whichever exists. Please let me know if > you have any > information on this. Thanks. > > Regards, > Udaya > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/sip-implementors
