gethotbyname error continued
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Jun 18 15:02:31 EDT 2002
Are you sure you're not hitting the gethostbyaddr() calls?
Also, I think the suggestion was to 'sethostent(1)', not (0).
-derek
"Frank Ramsay" <fjramsay1234 at hotmail.com> writes:
> > sethostent(0);
> > // Detect if we should call gethostbyname() or gethostbyaddr()
> > if (isalpha(server_name[0])) { /* server address is a name */
> > hp = gethostbyname(server_name);
> > } else { /* Convert nnn.nnn address to a usable one */
> > addr = inet_addr(server_name);
> > hp = gethostbyaddr((char *)&addr,4,AF_INET);
> > hp = gethostbyaddr((char *)&addr,5,AF_INET);
> > }
> > endhostent();
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