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gethotbyname error continued



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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