On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:55:43AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> Really, you should be using the modern
> interface, getaddrinfo, and forgetting you ever heard of
> gethostbyname, since we're almost in 2013 and gethostbyname, by
> design, cannot support IPv6.

 Obligatory rant against getaddrinfo() :
 http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2012-July/078123.html
(The next two messages in the thread are small errata.)

 Conclusion : if you need to perform DNS resolution, as opposed to NSS
resolution, forget you ever heard about getaddrinfo() as well, and use
a real DNS client library. :P

-- 
 Laurent
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